"To Janette Scott, the lovely young star of Now and Forever, whose vibrant and touching performance in that fifties film is the epitome of what love and romance on the screen used to be." Dedication, William K. Everson's Love in the Film "Even in 1956, Now and Forever was a complete anachronism... (The story of runaway teenage lovers and the adult forces working for and against them,) it is a little slow getting under way, due mainly to the stereotyped nature of the adult roles. But once the elopement is under way, it takes off with warmth and real humor, and spends most of its time in the heart of the English countryside... The whole film has a pleasingly naive fairytale quality (and) many of the pictorial compositions are designed purely to stress beauty, color and youth... Today of course, eloping is almost as outdated as marriage, but Now and Forever, a delightful breath of fresh air, is a lovely reminder of the days when it wasn't. Even if life was never quite that innocent, it's good to think that we once believed that it could be." William K. Everson, Love in the Film