{"id":9098,"date":"2010-04-29T22:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2010-04-30T06:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:03:25","slug":"leave-her-to-heaven-john-stahl-1945-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl, 1945): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 From 1943-1947\u00a0 Gene Tierney starred in a handful of her greatest screen roles.\u00a0 Leave Her to Heaven<\/a><\/em> was produced on the heels of the sensational Laura<\/em>, and was arguably\u00a0Tierney’s greatest screen achievement.<\/p>\n

Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets author Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) on a train and quickly falls in love, despite the fact that she is already engaged to up and coming D. A.\u00a0Russell Quinton (Vincent Price).\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a quick Dear John letter and a\u00a0sudden proposal, Ellen and Richard\u00a0become newlyweds and are celebrating.\u00a0 Full of love for her new husband (maybe a little too much), Ellen insists that\u00a0the two\u00a0live close to Richard’s disabled\u00a0kid brother Danny (Darryl Hickman), in order to be more helpful.<\/p>\n

Fresh\u00a0from their honeymoon and Richard makes the mistake of inviting too many guests to their mountain retreat Back ‘O the Moon.\u00a0 The walls begin to close in on Ellen due to too many guests, too much work,\u00a0and not enough attention from her husband.<\/p>\n

First there’s a drowning, then a miscarriage, and finally an untimely death, and then\u00a0things really begin to go south.<\/p>\n

Stahl\u00a0chose brilliant technicolor for this noir-melodrama, leaving the audience easily entranced by the lovely Tierney, just as Richard Harland is with Ellen.\u00a0 Gene Tierney received\u00a0her single\u00a0Oscar Nomination as Best Actress for this role.<\/p>\n

What a superb choice TCM made in screening this forgotten gem, which has been often\u00a0overshadowed by the magnificent Laura.\u00a0 <\/em>Darryl Hickman was in attendance for a Q & A with\u00a0our marvelous host Robert Osborne.\u00a0 When asked about working with the highly accomplished Tierney (who suffered from heartbreak and bouts of\u00a0mental illness), Hickman retracted a previous negative remark he had\u00a0made about the actress.\u00a0 He agreed with Mr. Osborne that Tierney’s performance was outstanding, and that she had to have been in\u00a0a certain frame of mind in order to carry out her role so successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, CA. \u00a0 From 1943-1947\u00a0 Gene Tierney starred in a handful of her greatest screen roles.\u00a0 Leave Her to Heaven was produced on the heels of the sensational Laura, and was arguably\u00a0Tierney’s greatest screen achievement. Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets author Richard Harland (Cornel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-tcm-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}