Leave Her to Heaven

Infobox Film
name = Leave Her to Heaven


caption = Theatrical poster
director = John M. Stahl
producer = William A. Bacher
writer = Story:
Ben Ames Williams
Screenplay
Jo Swerling
starring = Gene Tierney Cornel Wilde Jeanne Crain Vincent Price
music = Alfred Newman
cinematography = Leon Shamroy
editing = James B. Clark
distributor = Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
released = December 19, 1945 (U.S.A.)
runtime = 110 minutes
country = United States
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:99202
imdb_id = 0037865

"Leave Her to Heaven" is a 1945 20th Century Fox color film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills. [imdb title|id=0037865|title=Leave Her to Heaven.]

It was adapted for the screen by Jo Swerling, based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams, and was directed by John M. Stahl.

Plot

This Technicolor film noir drama tells the story of a young novelist, Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), who meets beautiful Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) on a train.

They fall in love and are married. Harland soon finds his life blighted when tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him. Gradually, he realizes that his wife's insane jealousy, which turns her own family away from her, may be the cause of the tragedies in his life.

Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

Title

The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to "leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her."

Cast

* Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent Harland
* Cornel Wilde as Richard Harland
* Jeanne Crain as Ruth Berent
* Vincent Price as Russell Quinton
* Mary Philips as Mrs. Berent
* Ray Collins as Glen Robie
* Gene Lockhart as Dr. Saunders
* Reed Hadley as Dr. Mason
* Darryl Hickman as Danny Harland
* Chill Wills as Leick Thome

Awards

Wins
* Academy Award: Oscar, Best Cinematography -- Color, Leon Shamroy ; 1946.

Nominations
* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Gene Tierney; Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color, Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford and Thomas Little; and Best Sound, Recording, Thomas T. Moulton (20th Century-Fox SSD); 1946.

Adaptation

* "Too Good to Be True" (1988 Television version).

References

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