Leave Her to Heaven
film poster for Leave Her to Heaven
Directed by	John M. Stahl
Produced by	William A. Bacher
Written by	Ben Ames Williams (novel) Jo Swerling
Starring	Gene Tierney Cornel Wilde Jeanne Crain Vincent Price
Music by	Alfred Newman
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s)	December 19, 1945 (U.S. release)
Running time	110 min
Language	English
IMDb profile

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. Image File history File links LeaveHer. ... John Malcolm Stahl (January 21, 1886 – January 12, 1950) was an American film director and producer. ... Ben Ames Willaims (7 March 1889 – 3 February 1953) American writer who published over thrity novels, including The Strange Woman (1945), House Divided (1947), Leave Her to Heaven (1946), and Come Spring (1940). ... Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 - October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer and lyricist and a screenwriter. ... Gene Tierney as the title character in Laura Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American actress and former fashion model. ... Cornel Wilde Cornelius Louis Wilde (October 13, 1915 – October 16, 1989) was an American actor. ... Jeanne Crain Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. ... Vincent Leonard Price Jr. ... Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ... // Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ... Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Gene Tierney as the title character in Laura Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American actress and former fashion model. ... Cornel Wilde Cornelius Louis Wilde (October 13, 1915 – October 16, 1989) was an American actor. ... Jeanne Crain Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. ... Vincent Leonard Price Jr. ... Darryl Gerard Hickman (born July 28, 1931) is an American film and TV actor, former television executive and child star of the 1930s and 1940s. ... Chill Wills (July 18, 1903 in Seagoville, Texas – December 15, 1978) was an actor and singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet. ...

It was adapted for the screen by Jo Swerling, based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams, and was directed by John M. Stahl. Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 - October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer and lyricist and a screenwriter. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... Ben Ames Willaims (7 March 1889 – 3 February 1953) American writer who published over thrity novels, including The Strange Woman (1945), House Divided (1947), Leave Her to Heaven (1946), and Come Spring (1940). ... John Malcolm Stahl (January 21, 1886 – January 12, 1950) was an American film director and producer. ...

This Technicolor noir drama tells the story of a young novelist, Richard Harland (played by Wilde), who meets beautiful Ellen Berent (played by 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. This was 20th Century Foxs most successful film of the1940s. Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Awards

Leave Her to Heaven won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. It was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gene Tierney), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color and Best Sound, Recording. The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ...

Featured cast

Gene Tierney as the title character in Laura Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American actress and former fashion model. ... Cornel Wilde Cornelius Louis Wilde (October 13, 1915 – October 16, 1989) was an American actor. ... Jeanne Crain Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. ... Vincent Leonard Price Jr. ... Collins in The Racket (1951) Ray Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television. ... Gene Lockhart (1891 - 1957) was a Canadian character actor, singer and popular composer. ...

See also

• Too Good to Be True (1988 TV version)

Too Good to Be True is a 1988 made-for-TV movie starring Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy, Daniel Baldwin, Glynnis OConnor, Larry Drake, Neil Patrick Harris, James Sikking, and Julie Harris. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1988. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ...

External links

• Leave Her to Heaven at the Internet Movie Database

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