Sunday 14 September 2014

Heaven Can Wait (1943 Ernst Lubitsch)

Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Laird Cregar (great as urbane Devil), Eugene Pallette, Marjorie Main.

Very stylish colour photography by Edward Cronjager.

Thanks DVD Beaver
An entire life written with dry wit by Samson Raphaelson (also Shop Around the Corner and Trouble in Paradise ) from a play by Lazlo Bus-Fekete.

On the latter absence of Gene from our screens:
The Left Hand of God (1955)... was to be her last performance for seven years. The pressures of a failed marriage to Oleg Cassini, the birth of a daughter who was mentally retarded in 1943, and several unhappy love affairs resulted in Gene being hospitalized for depression. When she returned to the the screen in Advise & Consent (1962), her acting was as good as ever but there was no longer a big demand for her services.
 From IMDB biography by Denny Jackson.

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