Leave Her to Heaven
- Original title
- Leave Her to Heaven
- Year
- 1945
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jo Swerling. Novel: Ben Ames Williams
- Cast
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- Gene Tierney
- Cornel Wilde
- Jeanne Crain
- Vincent Price
- Mary Philips
- Ray Collins
- Gene Lockhart
- Reed Hadley
- Darryl Hickman
- Chill Wills
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Mystery. Film noir | Melodrama. Jealousy
- Movie Groups
- Ben Ames Williams' Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of anyone who he pays the slightest attention to. In order to be completely alone with him, she convinces him to live in a isolated, but beautiful lakeside home in a spot called "Back of the Moon. " She dismisses the local handyman and then drowns his crippled half-brother Danny (Darryl Hickman). To Richard's delight, Ellen becomes pregnant. Ellen, resentful of the restriction caused by the pregnancy and afraid that she will lose some of Richard's love and attention, causes a miscarriage by throwing herself down the stairs. Ellen also becomes insanely jealous of her foster sister Ruth (Jeanne Crain), who is open and uncomplicated and soon becomes Richard's friend... Filmed in an incredibly rich Technicolor.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1945: Oscar: Best Cinematography - color. 4 Nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film."
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"Gothic psychologizing melodrama, so preposterously full-blown and straight-faced that it's a juicy entertainment."
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