Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on August 8, 2024

Leave Her to Heaven (1945) The mingling of film noir and melodrama can yield strange but beautiful fruit, as it does most memorably in 1945’s Leave Her to Heaven, adapted by Jo Swerling from the 1944 novel by Ben Ames Williams and directed by John M. Stahl. Gene Tierney, always...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on March 14, 2024

Silver Screen Standards: Heaven Can Wait (1943) While you might expect a movie about the balance of a man’s life being judged at the gates of Hell to be heavy existential stuff, Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait (1943) serves it up as a sparkling romantic comedy in the director’s quintessential...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on November 5, 2023

This is my contribution to the Classic Movie Blog Association's Blogathon and the Beast event. Click here for more beastly good reads.Leave Her to Heaven: When Beauty Disguises the BeastIn the eternal cinematic battle between good and evil, virtue must always contend with the beast. Now, when the be   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on September 7, 2023

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on December 9, 2022

Bette Davis looks properly prim in this scene from All This and Heaven, Too ( 1940 ), the Warner Brothers' classic where she stars as Mlle. Henriette, a much-loved French governess who falls in love with her distinguished employer, played by Charles Boyer. From the Archives is our latest series...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 17, 2022

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Pennies from...   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 16, 2021

Today’s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on the beautiful but deadly Ellen Berent in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). WHAT’S LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN ABOUT? Socialite Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets a novelist, Richard “Dick” Harland (Cornel Wilde), at Rancho Jacinto in Taos, New Mexico. Richard is ther   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on September 9, 2021

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on October 2, 2020

"From Hell To Heaven," a Paramount programmer from early 1933, is among the least seen of Carole Lombard's features, though it was used for this photo in the April 1933 issue of Screenland. Items from this film are relatively few, but one publicity still has popped up on eBay. It's...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on July 23, 2020

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film...   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on June 11, 2020

“Leave Her to Heaven”: a film noir in glorious Technicolor Leave Her to Heaven (1945) is a Technicolor film noir directed by John Stahl, produced by William A. Bacher and Darryl F. Zanuck, and starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Jeanne Crain. It is based on the best-selling nov   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on May 15, 2020

Pennies from Heaven is about how being a woman—particularly in the 1930s—is awful because you exist entirely for male consumption. If not sexually, then as production. The film’s supposed to be about how life’s just unfair for dreamers, in this case lead Steve Martin, who’s just trying to make the   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 9, 2019

This is an inordinately long book (the print is very small, so the count of 730 pages is a bit misleading), and it took me an inordinately long time to read it. I’m in two minds about whether the effort was worth it. In a frame story that takes the...   read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on May 24, 2019

Visually, John M. Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven (1945) might be one of the most colourful films noir you’ll ever see in your life, but its narrative line is probably among the darkest ones of the movement. This film taking place with beautiful natural landscapes, instead of notorious neig   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 13, 2019

Film Noir is usually synonymous with black and white. Of course, as with everything, especially something as notoriously difficult to categorize as film noir, there are notable exceptions. Obvious outliers are Niagara (1953), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), House of Bamboo (1955), and this picture fr   read more

The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on March 26, 2019

Leave Her to Heaven (1945) and that chilling scene… On March 26, 2019 By CarolIn Uncategorized Leon Shamroy’s stunning, ethereal Oscar-winning cinematography in Leave Her to Heaven (dir. John M. Stahl, 1945) is the perfect backdrop for one of th   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on June 13, 2018

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the founding of Carole & Co., with this the 3,519th entry -- close to one per day. (For many years, I indeed had more than one entry daily, but homelessness and other personal problems forced me to cut back. Since April, I've resumed my...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 23, 2018

7th Heaven is one of those films that revels in classical storytelling where the drama is rich and deep; the score hits all the crescendos and fills them in with the sweetest of notes that are both beautiful and moving. The love scenes are rapturous in a way that makes...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on February 20, 2017

Often imitated, never duplicated, Gone with the Wind‘s massive success in 1939 saw every studio attempt to find their own literary epic to adapt in the hopes of sweeping up awards (and box office dollars). Warner Bros., known for its conservatism went full-steam ahead with their take on Rachel   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on August 5, 2016

Neste Mundo e no Outro / A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven, 1946) Eu nunca vou me esquecer da emoção que senti quando vi “Os Sapatinhos Vermelhos” (1948) pela primeira vez. Uma verdade pouco repetida é que a cor é algo muito poderoso a ser usado...   read more