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All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a novel by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a younger ...
Helen Phillips, Dr. Phillips's widow, receives a flood of calls, letters, and visitors all offering to pay back loans that Dr. Phillips refused to accept repayment of during his life. Many claimed he refused by saying "it was already used up." Edward Randolph, a famous artist and Dr. Phillips's close friend, explains to Helen what that phrase ...
More specifically, Almodóvar's vibrant use of color in 1988's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown recalls the cinematography of Sirk's films of the 1950s, while Haynes' Far from Heaven was a conscious attempt to replicate a typical Sirk melodrama—in particular All That Heaven Allows. [17]
There’s Gig Young telling Hudson his days as a “gay married bachelor” are up in “Strange Bedfellows” (1965), or a reedited scene from “All That Heaven Allows,” tweaked by editor ...
Margaret "Peg" McCray, also known as Peggy Thompson, Peggy or Peg Fenwick and Peg Padover (November 9, 1907 – November 5, 1987), was an American screenwriter and playwright who worked in the U.S. and French film industries, best known for writing the scripts for Whirlpool of Desire and All That Heaven Allows.
All That Heaven Allows, 1955, directed by Douglas Sirk; Bigger Than Life, 1956, directed by Nicholas Ray; Forty Guns, 1957 western film directed by Samuel Fuller; Pickup on South Street, 1953 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller; Shock Corridor, 1963, directed by Samuel Fuller; Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962, directed by Vincente Minnelli
She left MGM in 1942 and worked steadily for several film studios over subsequent years. During the 1950s and 1960s, producer Ross Hunter frequently included Grey in his popular soap melodramas such as All That Heaven Allows, Back Street and Madame X. [1] Grey had an intermittent love affair with Clark Gable in the 1940s.
All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk; Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (a.k.a. Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder; The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (a.k.a. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder; All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz