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All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 romance film directed by Douglas Sirk. The film stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, and costars Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel and Virginia Grey. It was written by Peg Fenwick from a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. Image File history File links All_That_Heaven_Allows_DVD_cover. ...
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Jane Wyman (born January 5, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ...
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his good looks, and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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Jane Wyman (born January 5, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ...
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his good looks, and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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Conrad Nagel Conrad Nagel, born March 16, 1897 in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, was a noted screen actor and matinee idol of the silent era and beyond. ...
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Synopsis
All That Heaven Allows is a May - September romance set in a small town. Cary Scott is a well-to-do widow (Jane Wyman) gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. Cary then meets a handsome younger man, Ron (Rock Hudson), who owns a small landscaping business. Ron is a follower of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and "hears a different drummer", enjoying a life focused on nature; he is deliberately uninterested in the gossipy opinions of others. Their romance causes clashes and tensions between Cary, her children, and the country club folk. A widow is a woman whose husband has died. ...
Jane Wyman (born January 5, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ...
A country club is a private club that offers a variety of recreational sports facilities to its members. ...
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his good looks, and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. ...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is most well-known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance...
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Production Universal-International Pictures wanted to follow up on the pairing of Wyman and Hudson from Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession. Sirk found the screenplay for All That Heaven Allows "rather impossible" but was able to restructure it and use the big budget to film and edit the work exactly the way he wanted.[citation needed] The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios that has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los...
Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. ...
Responses At the time of its release, All That Heaven Allows was mostly panned by the movie critics of the time.[citation needed] However, in later years it was one of a number of his melodramas to have ben re-evaluated favorably by critics and held in regard by a subsequent generation of directors, including Pedro Almodóvar, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Waters, and Quentin Tarantino.[citation needed] Among other comments, some cite this film as an example of how to transcend the formulaic constraints of the studio system.[citation needed] Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ...
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The film was placed in the United States' National Film Registry in 1995. The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
References in other films All That Heaven Allows was the inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) in which a mature woman falls in love with an Arab man. Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven (2002) is an homage to Sirk's work, in particular All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ...
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 German film directed by Werner Fassbinder. ...
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Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Ryan Ward, Patricia Clarkson, and James Rebhorn. ...
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Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hursts novel Imitation of Life, produced by Universal as a vehicle for Lana Turner. ...
The film was later spoofed by John Waters with his 1981 film Polyester.
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