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  1. Leave Her to Heaven suffers from a surfeit of unlikable characters, but the solid cast -- led by an outstanding Gene Tierney -- makes it hard to turn away. Read Critics Reviews

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    • Gene Tierney
    • John M. Stahl
    • Crime, Drama
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  3. Part Technicolor film noir and part dark romantic melodrama with a psychotic beauty at its center, John Stahl’s gorgeous Leave Her to Heaven is the original Fatal Attraction as a lush...

  4. Leave Her to Heaven: Directed by John M. Stahl. With Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price. A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

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    • Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
    • John M. Stahl
    • 1946-01
    • In 1944, after an intense bidding war, Twentieth Century-Fox studio head Darryl Zanuck acquired the film rights to Ben Ames Williams’s Leave Her to Heaven for $100,000, then an exorbitant price for an unpublished work.
    • The title of the book and the film is taken from act 1, scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the scene, the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to him, urging his son to avenge his murder, though without acting against Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother: “Leave her to heaven / And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge / To prick and sting her.”
    • Director John M. Stahl—who was born Jacob Morris Strelitsky in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1886, and who made his first film in Hollywood in 1914—was one of the thirty-six founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
    • Over the course of Stahl’s thirty-five year career in Hollywood, Leave Her to Heaven was the only color film he directed.
  5. Mar 24, 2020 · The doomed romance at the center of the movie is in fact launched by the bare, shameless gaze of Ellen Berent (Tierney), whose eyes land on our hero, the novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), seated across from her in a train’s club car.

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  6. Mar 18, 2020 · Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice.

  7. Sep 13, 2007 · A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl’s best-known film.

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