Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
December 25, 1945Release Date
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
December 25, 1945Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Gene Tierney
Ellen Berent Harland
Cornel Wilde
Richard Harland
Jeanne Crain
Ruth Berent
Vincent Price
Russell Quinton
Mary Philips
Mrs. Berent
Ray Collins
Glen Robie
Gene Lockhart
Dr. Saunders
Reed Hadley
Dr. Mason
Darryl Hickman
Danny Harland
Chill Wills
Leick Thome
Mae Marsh
Fisherwoman (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
Carlson (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Paul Everton
The Judge (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Prison Matron (uncredited)
Guy Beach
Sheriff (uncredited)
Audrey Betz
Cook at Robie's Ranch (uncredited)
Olive Blakeney
Mrs. Louise Robie (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Catterson - the Chemist (uncredited)
Jim Farley
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Betty Hannon
Tess Robie (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Lounge Car Train Passenger (uncredited)
Thomas Martin
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Hans Moebus
Juror (uncredited)
Milton Parsons
Medcraft - Mortician (uncredited)
Addison Richards
Bedford (uncredited)
Earl Schenck
Norton (uncredited)
Charles Tannen
Man (uncredited)
Jo Swerling
Screenplay
James B. Clark
Editor
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 25, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 50m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsMaine · New Mexico, United States of America
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Wiki.
Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American psychological thriller film noir melodrama directed by John M. Stahl and starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, and Vincent Price. It follows a socialite who marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her. It is based on the 1944 novel of the same name by Ben Ames Williams, adapted by screenwriter Jo Swerling.
Shot in Technicolor, filming took place in several locations in California, as well as Arizona and New Mexico in the summer of 1945. Leave Her to Heaven was released in the United States theatrically on December 20, 1945. The film was a box-office hit, grossing over $8 million, and was Twentieth Century-Fox's highest-grossing film of the entire decade.
In the decades following its release, Leave Her to Heaven garnered a cult following and has been the subject of film criticism for its unique blurring of genres, featuring elements of film noir, psychological thrillers, and melodramas. It has also been noted for its numerous visual and narrative references to figures in Greek mythology. The film's title is drawn from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which 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."
In 2018, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."