There's Always Tomorrow is a 1956 American romantic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett.

His three adolescent children, son Vinnie and daughters Ellen and Frankie, and his wife Marion pay him little attention.

Norma reveals that she is a divorced dress designer and is in town to speak at a conference in nearby Palm Valley.

The dinner takes an awkward turn when Vinnie abruptly leaves and Ellen refuses to speak, but Ann makes excuses to the adults.

After Norma leaves, Cliff tells Marion that he feels neglected and has grown tired of his unadventurous life.

He visits her hotel anyway and declares his love; she initiates their first kiss but tearfully asks him to wait until the next day for her response.

She admits that she had vanished 20 years ago because she loved him, but that they could not be happy together because he has a good life and would regret abandoning his family.

That's the thesis of Universal's 'There's Always Tomorrow,' a little tale of domestic relations ... [T]he moral (if not the picture) is worth broadcasting: For Pete's sake, have mercy on Dad—especially if you are contemplating taking him to see this film.

TimeOut Film Guide stated that the film is "a brilliant example of his [Sirk's] mastery of lacerating irony," concluding that Stanwyck's "generically-correct fairytale 'sacrifice' of self to the sanctity of the family, and the sanctioned role of the independent woman, merely intensifies the romantic agony of both dreamer victims.

Assigning the film 3½ stars out of 5, The Motion Picture Guide described it as "another of director Sirk's melodramatic, bitter attacks on the values of American middle-class life in the 1950s."

[8] Universal first released There's Always Tomorrow on DVD in 2010 as part of its The Barbara Stanwyck Collection,[9] but in a full-frame aspect ratio and with a shortened runtime of 81 minutes.

[11] On August 25, 2020, There's Always Tomorrow was released on Blu-ray in North America for the first time by Kino Lorber Studio Classics, which licensed the film from Universal.