Noir-vember: Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

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Darryl Hickman Dies: Actor In ‘The Grapes Of Wrath’ And ‘Leave Her To Heaven’ Was 92

Veteran actor Darryl Hickman is dead at 92.

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#LeaveHerToHeaven (1945)
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

#GeneTierney on a break
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Rewatched #LeaveHerToHeaven and was struck by how EVERYONE attributes the obsessive, problematic relationship between Ellen & her father to her innate sociopathic tendencies and her manipulation of him, and nobody ever questions if perhaps this GROWN MAN had a hand in shaping HIS DAUGHTER'S psyche.

I'm not a fan of boiling down a woman's personality to "daddy issues," but even that is an improvement over "guess she's just a shrew."

#1940s #cinema #movie #psychology #film #StillAGreatMovie

Most 70s horror made-for-TV are a remake of #LeaveHerToHeaven
#LeaveHerToHeaven remake:
Someone's taught Danny how to do the dead-man's float

Always forget the fabulous, sexy #VincentPrice has a great pre-horror role in #LeaveHerToHeaven

Lawzy [bites knuckle]

#NowWatching #LeaveHerToHeaven
Endlessly fascinated by the art direction; the Technicolor palette is deliberately creepy

Remembering Gene Eliza Tierney (1920-91), the striking American film, stage and television actress, born in New York #onthisday. An indelible #femmefatale in the title role of Otto Preminger's classic #Laura (1944), she also starred in the director's later noirs #Whirlpool and #WheretheSidewalkEnds (both 1950) while reteaming with Vincent Price for #LeaveHertoHeaven (1945) and #Dragonwyck (1946), and portraying the nightclub singer in Jules Dassin's superb #NightandtheCity (1950).

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