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Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing, Charlotte Granville ... see more see more... , Gilbert Emery , Henry Kolker , Tetsu Komai , Jameson Thomas , Harry Stubbs , Egon Brecher , Agostino Borgato , Andre Cheron , Ronnie Cosbey , Sam Harris , Grace Hayle , Richard Loo , Buster Phelps , Ynez Seabury , Rolfe Sedan , Akim Tamiroff , George Webb

Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter (Shirley Temple), whom he's never seen. Cooper's girlfriend Carole Lombard is ... read more read more...shocked by this callousness and walks out on him, but when Cooper meets his daughter and has a change of heart, he reclaims the little girl and is reunited with Lombard. Still, Cooper can't hold down a job. Another get-rich-quick scheme ends unhappily when Cooper is forced to participate in a jewel robbery. After fighting it out with his confederates, the wounded Cooper begs the victim of the robbery, a wealthy and loving woman, to adopt his daughter and give her the sort of life he is unable to provide. Now and Forever would have been mighty turgid stuff without the combined star power of Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and six-year-old Shirley Temple. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.

Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Release Date: August 31, 1934

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DVD Release Date: April 19, 2005

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  • November 17, 2007
    It's a Shirley Temple movie, what else can I say?

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