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Leave Her to Heaven is a american film of genre Drama directed by Otto Brower released in USA on 19 december 1945 with Gene Tierney

Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

Leave Her to Heaven
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Released in USA 19 december 1945
Length 1h50
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir,    Melodrama,    Romance
Rating75% 3.7975753.7975753.7975753.7975753.797575

Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American Technicolor film noir starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Ray Collins, and Chill Wills. The story was adapted for the screen by Jo Swerling from the best selling novel of the same name by Ben Ames Williams and directed by John M. Stahl.

The story (told in an extended flashback that constitutes the bulk of the film) revolves around a femme fatale who entraps a husband and commits several crimes motivated by her insane jealousy over everything concerning him. Tierney received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. The film grossed over $5,000,000, Fox's highest-grossing picture of the 1940s.

The film's title is drawn 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.

Synopsis

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) returns to his remote island home, called Back of the Moon, after two years in prison. His friend and attorney, (Ray Collins), narrates how Richard meets beautiful socialite Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) on a train. She falls in love with him based mainly on his close resemblance to her recently deceased father, to whom she was obsessively attached.

Actors

Gene Tierney

(Ellen Berent Harland)
Cornel Wilde

(Richard Harland)
Jeanne Crain

(Ruth Berent)
Vincent Price

(Russell Quinton)
Mary Philips

(Mrs. Berent)
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