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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) Gene Tierney rips the screen apart as the manipulative and murderous Ellen, who'll stop at nothing to take total possession of the man she loves in the film version of Ben Ames Williams' thriller, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945). Filmed in Oscar winning Technicolor, Ellen was the most coveted role of the year and every actress in Hollywood threw her hats in the ring. However, Darryl F. Zanuck decided to go with the actress whom he later described as "The most beautiful girl I ever knew," Gene Tierney. Tierney was going through a difficult time in her personnel life during the shooting, her daughter had recently been born severely brain damaged. She dove into the part as a means of forgetting for awhile and she earned her only Oscar nomination as Best Actress, losing to Joan Crawford for MILDRED PIERCE. Mental illness would later plague Tierney's life and she said that it was why she understood Ellen so well. Rounding out the cast were romantic heart throb Cornell Wilde, lovely Jeanne Crain as the "good sister" and Darryl Hickman, who has one of the most memorable death scenes in film history. It all makes for fascinating viewing and obviously audiences thought so too. LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN opened at Christmas in 1945 and proceeded to break all box office records that year becoming the highest grossing picture in the history of 20th Century Fox up to that time. Beautifully photographed, incredibly romantic and filled with suspense, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN <b>...</b> |
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