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  Leave Her to Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 20th Century Fox film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills.
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.
Leave Her to Heaven won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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 Sedona Monthly | Sedona Gone Hollywood: Leave Her To Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
While her signature will always be the title role in another proto-noir, 1944's Laura, it was her riveting turn in Heaven that brought her only Oscar nomination, and she would name it as her favorite among her 37 feature films.
Leave Her To Heaven was based on the novel of the same name by Ben Ames Williams, whose work was the basis for 25 movies between 1923 and 1957.
It should be definitely established that her reason for murdering the child is that she thinks the newborn will replace her in her husband's affections.
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 Leave Her To Heaven
Vinny and her have a pow wow to discuss what a hoe-bag she is and he says he still loves her and always will and she treats him like a tall, skinny lawyer with strangely combed hair ought to be treated.
Her final act of ego is killing herself and then trying to pin it all on her adopted sister.
Leave Her To Heaven is a triumph in the jealous woman film genre and is shocking for its cold depiction as to what lengths a woman will go to so that she gets what she wants.
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 DVD Talk > Reviews > Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven is almost a contradiction in terms, as it's considered a film noir yet is filmed in gleaming oversaturated Technicolor.
So Leave Her to Heaven is quickly set up for what at the time must have been some hair-raising murder scenes, especially from a writer (Jo Swerling) that once specialized in lighthearted Frank Capra movies.
Ellen was obsessed with her father and sees in Richard the perfect mate because of his physical resemblance to him.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
In direct contrast to the ugliness of her character’s inner self, Gene Tierney’s on screen beauty is luminescent across every frame of the film in which she appears.
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN is offered with a remixed stereo soundtrack that decodes to surround reasonably well.
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN is a genuine film classic that has been given a terrific presentation on DVD by the folks at Fox.
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Her chariot was pulled by silver stags and she roamed the forest, mountains with her nymphs and hunting dogs.
Chang-O stole her husbands magical potion, drank it and was forced to escape his wrath by fleeing to the moon in the shape of a frog.
She and the sun were lovers, but the sun was always jealous and kept on telling her to leave heaven, and as soon as she left, he would go in a frantic search for her.
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 Leave Her to Heaven
To get herself out of her messes (she also stages an "accidental" tumble down a flight of stairs to kill her unborn baby), Ellen poisons herself and makes it look like Ruth is the killer.
She loved her father too much.” Even Ellen, in confessing to her husband that she let his brother drown, struggles to describe the dark rage that overcame her, and by the time it lifted, the boy was gone.
Her possessiveness is her punishment; it never gets her the results she wants.
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 Home Theater Forum - HTF REVIEW: Leave Her To Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She has come with her mother and half-sister to visit this mutual friend for a sort of ceremony; Ellen will scatter the ashes of her deceased father at this place since it was his favourite place to be.
Her so-called loving behaviour has caused friction within her mother and sister, and they even blame the death of her father on her.
Leave Her To Heaven is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio and I see little to complain about on this 35mm film restoration.
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 DVD Times - Leave Her To Heaven
In this respect, Leave Her To Heaven is perhaps his greatest achievement, delving deep into the superficial beauty to reveal the rotten heart within.
In Leave Her To Heaven, it’s as though Stahl was so preoccupied with his leading lady that every other consideration was secondary.
Leave Her To Heaven is irresistible, twisted fun which features a brilliant central performance.
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 Leave Her to Heaven - Movie Tome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins.
Ellen Berent is completly obsessed with her new husband and wants to spend all her time with him, but she's unable to because of his work, relatives, and mutual friends.
The steps that Ellen Berent takes in order to control her husband are quite extreme and in the end prove deadly.
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 Notherby's :: Leave Her to Heaven
By design and through her acting skills, Miss Tierney's tour de force performance dominates the film; she especially shines in two challenging sequences, one involving a rowboat and another which takes place on a staircase.
The sour and ineffective commentary aside, the DVD presentation of "Leave Her to Heaven" is a superb example of 1940's Hollywood moviemaking and the DVD format at their very best, and is most highly recommended for your viewing pleasure.
Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood.
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 Leave Her to Heaven | DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Leave Her To Heaven is a stylish psychological thriller starring Gene Tierney as Ellen, the stunningly beautiful wife of handsome writer Richard Harland, played by Cornel Wilde.
Her husband becomes unnerved by her compulsive and jealous behavior.
I was so excited to see and enjoy Leave Her To Heaven because of all of the praise heaped upon it and because of Gene Tierney's presence.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: Leave Her To Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A shame, since Darryl F. Zanuck's "Leave Her To Heaven" (1945) is as thrilling, disturbing and evocative of the noir style as anything shot in fl and white.
The culmination of this role and her formidable zest to make the transformation from congenial maiden to cold-hearted vixen believable, forever altered that perception of her in Hollywood.As her younger sister, Jeanne Crain is an excellent foil and runner up for Richard's affections.
It seems that Ellen doesn't want to share her husband's affections with anyone, including his crippled kid brother, whom she lets drown when he attempts to swim across a lake, and her unborn child, when she deliberately throws herself down a flight of stairs to induce a miscarriage.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Leave Her to Heaven: Fox Studio Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Her paranoid jealousy leads to tragedy, and Dick gradually begins to realize what kind of mess he's gotten himself into.
Based on the best-selling novel by then-popular writer Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven is unapologetically melodramatic and pulpy, which would be fine, except that most of the time we can see where it's headed a mile away.
Ultimately, Leave Her to Heaven is the kind of story that works better as a novel than a movie; it's diverting enough, but it never feels like more than a guilty pleasure.
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 Leave Her to Heaven - VPFS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She tells him that she was very close to her father, and that they loved spending time together.
Ellen's mother tells her that Russell Quinton was elected district attorney and is considering the governorship.
"Leave Her to Heaven" starts off innocently enough, but by the end I was truly creeped out.
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 Leave Her To Heaven: Fox Studio Classics (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Leave Her to Heaven presented a Dolby Stereo 2.0 soundtrack that was similar to the usually inferior remixes found on other Fox Studio Classics DVDs.
Occasionally slow-paced and melodramatic, Leave Her to Heaven nonetheless manifests a generally intriguing tale.
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 Leave Her to Heaven (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tagline: Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins.
Tierney was perfect in her role as a woman who was very possessive of her husband,(Cornel Wilde) Richard Harland, " Star of India",'53.
Richard Harland could hardly breath without his wife watching every move he made and especially when he found time to enjoy her sister, while she was confined to a bed because of being pregnant.
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 Leave Her To Heaven Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Leave Her To Heaven Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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 Leave Her to Heaven -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Leave Her to Heaven -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 (Click link for more info and facts about film noir) film noir which tells the story of a man who gradually realizes that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of several tragedies in his life.
Leave Her to Heaven was remade for (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television in 1988 with the title Too Good to Be True.
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 Leave Her to Heaven Movie: Leave Her to Heaven DVD is available from Bestprices.com
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This genuinely perverse and fascinating film noir, filmed in incredibly rich Technicolor, is the tale of a woman's obsessive desire to possess her husband, exclusive of anyone else in the world.
When Ellen's sister Ruth visits, Ellen's paranoia and jealousy catapult her to confess to Richard that she was responsible for the "accidents." Sickened by Ellen's confession, Richard decides to leave her for good.
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 dOc DVD Review: Leave Her to Heaven (1946)
Her Ice Queen charms are finely tailored to a part that requires her to be utterly two-faced, manipulative and vicious to an extreme.
An oddly possessive relationship with her father is mentioned more than once, leading to the (unspoken) possibility of an incestuous relationship triggering her dissociation.
Richard is almost willfully clueless about her conduct, while the seemingly innocent Ruth is more than willing to take on an adulterous relationship with him.
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 Alfred NEWMAN All About Eve. Leave Her to Heaven : Film Music on the Web CD Reviews Jan 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Even including bonus stereo versions of the last two tracks, All About Eve (1950) just passes the half-hour mark, while Leave Her to Heaven (1945) features a mere 13 minutes and 25 seconds of score, for a film with a running time of 111 minutes.
Leave Her to Heaven was made just as film noir was gathering pace, and pitches itself somewhere between that genre and the often disparaged 'women's picture'.
As with Leave Her to Heaven, this is psychological film scoring, with brief statements of themes, and a low-key romantic hue like a faint echo of Max Steiner's Gone With the Wind (1939) yet stripped of much of the glamour.
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Ellen Berent's (Tierney) twisted ego drives her to kill her husband's (Wilde) brother (Hickman) and her own unborn child because she resents the attention they receive from her husband.
When her husband learns what she has done for love of him, he leaves her.
Her revenge is to kill herself and plant evidence that will indict her own sister (Crain).
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 Leave Her To Heaven [1946] - RadioDirectory.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The next year, possibly because of that film, Fox made her star again as a "femme fatale" - only this time more "fatale".
She plays a woman obsessed with her father, and the projected image of him in her newly found husband.
She got her only Oscar nomination for this film (again, the omission in the previous year with "Laura" might have something to do with it) and its spellbinding to see her in muted technicolor, more beautiful than ever - yes, this is a film noir shot in colour.
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 Ben Ames Williams, Mississippi Writer of Leave Her to Heaven, from Macon
Leave Her To Heaven (1944; his most well known novel)
After Williams settled down in 1912, he married Florence Trafton Talpey of York, Maine, (her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all sea captains) and together they had two sons and a daughter.
Some, such as Leave Her to Heaven and All the Brothers Were Valiant, were also made into films.
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 Amazon.com: Leave Her to Heaven (1945) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Seen within the context of its times, it is easy to understand why LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN was one of the great shockers of its day.
But she is also a psychopath who marries novelist Richard Harland (Corniel Wilde) because he looks a bit like her dead father, to whom she had an obsessive attachment--and once married she determines to have him completely to herself, even if that means destroying any one with the slightest claim on his affections.
Seen today, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN has a clunky feel to it: the script has all the nuance of a wrecking ball in full swing.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Leave Her to Heaven : Plot
When it becomes clear that family friend Jeanne Crain is attracted to her husband, Ms.
Tierney commits suicide, making her death appear to be murder and framing Crain for the "crime." In court, Ms.
Filmed in lush Technicolor, Leave Her to Heaven is based on the best-selling novel by Ben Ames Williams.
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 Summary of Leave Her to Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
They keep telling him, "Ellen went thataway." Ellen is engaged but breaks it off with her fiance, a lawyer named Quinton.
A stunned Quinton flies out to see her, but she announces her engagement to Richard, much to everyone's surprise.
He reluctantly reveals Ellen was so obsessed with him she drowned Danny, ended her pregnancy and most likely killed herself to incriminate Ruth.
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 Review of Leave Her to Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gene Tierney takes that question to the very limit in Leave Her to Heaven, an enjoyably twisted tale of love so fierce that nothing can stand in its way.
What really matters is that he looks just like her dear departed dad.
Leave Her to Heaven might be full of wide open spaces but thanks to Tierney's grim performance, there's nowhere to run from a woman with a heart of cold.
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