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Leave Her to Heaven

  • 19451945
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
13K
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Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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  • Drama
  • Film-Noir
  • Romance
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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
13K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • John M. Stahl
  • Writers
    • Jo Swerling(screenplay)
    • Ben Ames Williams(novel)
  • Stars
    • Gene Tierney
    • Cornel Wilde
    • Jeanne Crain
Top credits
  • Director
    • John M. Stahl
  • Writers
    • Jo Swerling(screenplay)
    • Ben Ames Williams(novel)
  • Stars
    • Gene Tierney
    • Cornel Wilde
    • Jeanne Crain
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    • 169User reviews
    • 90Critic reviews
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
    Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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    Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney
    • Ellen Berent Harland
    Cornel Wilde
    Cornel Wilde
    • Richard Harland
    Jeanne Crain
    Jeanne Crain
    • Ruth Berent
    Vincent Price
    Vincent Price
    • Russell Quinton
    Mary Philips
    Mary Philips
    • Mrs. Berent
    Ray Collins
    Ray Collins
    • Glen Robie
    Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart
    • Dr. Saunders
    Reed Hadley
    Reed Hadley
    • Dr. Mason
    Darryl Hickman
    Darryl Hickman
    • Danny Harland
    Chill Wills
    Chill Wills
    • Leick Thome
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Prison Matron
    • (uncredited)
    Guy Beach
    • Sheriff
    • (uncredited)
    Audrey Betz
    • Cook at Robie's Ranch
    • (uncredited)
    Olive Blakeney
    Olive Blakeney
    • Mrs. Louise Robie
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Clifford
    Ruth Clifford
    • Telephone Operator
    • (uncredited)
    Harry Depp
    • Catterson - the Chemist
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Everton
    Paul Everton
    • The Judge
    • (uncredited)
    Jim Farley
    Jim Farley
    • Train Conductor
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • John M. Stahl
    • Writers
      • Jo Swerling(screenplay)
      • Ben Ames Williams(novel)
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    • Trivia
      It was cited by director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time, and he assessed Gene Tierney as one of the most underrated actresses of the Golden Era.
    • Goofs
      When Richard is reading the paper in the typewriter, the word "wisteria" is spelled "wistaria".
    • Quotes

      Richard Harland: When I looked at you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind like clouds across the summer sky.

    • Connections
      Featured in M*A*S*H: House Arrest (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2
      (uncredited)

      Music by Frédéric Chopin

      Played on the piano by Ruth

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    7/10
    LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (John M. Stahl, 1945) ***
    A Technicolor noir is intrinsically a paradoxical term but this stunningly handsome melodrama – which deservedly copped cinematographer Leon Shamroy a consecutive Academy Award – is probably the most successful example of this anomaly within the prolific genre. Gorgeous Fox starlet Gene Tierney (who also received her sole Oscar-nomination for her efforts here) gives an excellent central performance as the pathologically jealous heroine who ensnares a chance acquaintance on a train (novelist Cornel Wilde) into marriage while summarily dismissing her current fiancée (prospective D.A. Vincent Price) via telegram. Wilde's younger brother (Darryl Hickman) is a cripple and when she finds herself having to take care of him while her hubby writes away in his cabin, she soon takes matters into her own psychotic little hands and lets the boy drown after suffering a cramp brought on by her egging to exercise himself further. The relationship between Tierney and Wilde is never the same again and he finds solace in her kind-hearted, red-headed half-sister (Jeanne Crain) who had earlier suggested that Tierney conceive a child so as to bring Wilde back to her. However, when she realizes their new-found proximity, Tierney deliberately throws herself down a staircase to lose the child. Furthermore, Tierney had had an unhealthy attachment to her late scientist father which turned the relationship with mother into a cool one; taking a trip down the cellar (where father's old mixtures are stored) on the eve of a picnic, she spikes her own food with poison but not before sending off a letter to Price incriminating Crain of her own murder!! Wilde and Crain make a handsome couple but are not overly taxed by their roles; on the other hand, Price makes the most of the juicy opportunity provided by the film's climactic trial sequence in which he grills Crain into declaring her love for Wilde and also contrives to make the latter an accessory to murder (punishable by a short imprisonment) for having withheld Tierney's confessions to him of her own evil deeds! The supporting cast also features a handful of familiar faces: Ray Collins (as Crain's guardian), Chill Wills (as Wilde's manservant) and Gene Lockhart (as the family doctor); director John M. Stahl was the Douglas Sirk of his day and handles the material with consummate skill while composer Alfred Newman lends it a quite remarkable musical backing that was oddly bypassed at the Oscars (although, truth be told, he was already being nominated for two other films that same year)!
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    • Release date
      • January 1946 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Todsünde
    • Filming locations
      • Sedona, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $8,200,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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