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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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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...
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acquired the film rights to Ben Ames Williams’s Leave Her to Heaven for $100,000, then an exorbitant price for an unpublished work.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.
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.
Sep 13, 2007 · A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl’s best-known film.