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Leave Her to Heaven

film by Stahl [1945]

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discussed in biography

In John M. Stahl
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) was based on Ben Ames Williams’s best seller about pathological jealousy. Gene Tierney starred as an unstable woman whose obsession with her husband (Cornel Wilde) results in murder and suicide; the supporting cast included Vincent Price and Jeanne Crain. Although…
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femme fatale

In femme fatale
…Falcon (1941), Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946), and Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947).
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Oscar to Shamroy for best cinematography, 1945

role of Wilde

In Cornel Wilde
…his later notable credits include Leave Her to Heaven (1945), The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), Centennial Summer (1946), Forever Amber (1947), Road House (1948), and Shockproof (1949). In 1952 Wilde appeared in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show
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