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Leave Her to Heaven Sponsored by Viva Creative Group 1945 | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller | d. John M. Stahl Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price |
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| The beautiful Gene Tierney, in an Oscar-nominated role, gives a bone-chilling performance as a woman so jealous of her novelist husband (Cornel Wilde) that she is willing to do anything to keep him solely to herself – including murder those who stand in her way. Daring in its exploration of violent obsession, the film won the Academy Award for best color cinematography and is renowned for Tierney’s portrayal of icy control, even as jealousy tears her – and her marriage – slowly apart. A legendary scene involving Tierney, a rowboat, a lake, and Cornel Wilde’s crippled brother (Darryl Hickman) is as striking and unforgettable as the shower scene in Psycho or the shark’s first appearance in Jaws! A stunning Technicolor noir and Twentieth Century Fox’s highest grossing film of the 1940s. - TS | ||