All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Escritores:

Rachel Field (novel)
Casey Robinson (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 julio 1940 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

1800s | France | Girls' School | Jealousy | Melodrama

Premios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

surprisingly moving soap opera of sorts

Reparto

Bette Davis	...	Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
Charles Boyer	...	Duc de Praslin
Jeffrey Lynn	...	Henry Martyn Field
Barbara O'Neil	...	Duchesse de Praslin
Virginia Weidler	...	Louise
Helen Westley	...	Madame LeMaire
Walter Hampden	...	Pasquier
Henry Daniell	...	Broussais
Harry Davenport	...	Pierre
George Coulouris	...	Charpentier
Montagu Love	...	Marechal Sebastiani
Janet Beecher	...	Miss Haines
June Lockhart	...	Isabelle
Ann E. Todd	...	Berthe (as Ann Todd)
Richard Nichols	...	Reynald

También conocida como:

El cielo y tú (Spain) [es]

Duración:

141 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6089)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

Charles Boyer plays this role in which he commits suicide. In real life he did the same by taking barbiturates 2 days after his beloved wife, the actress Pat Paterson, died of cancer. Boyer died in Arizona on Aug. 26, 1978; she died Aug 24th of the same year.

Citas:

Duc de Praslin: May I have Pierre come for your luggage?
Duchesse de Praslin: Theo, last night I poured my heart out to you in a letter. I crept to your doorway which I am foridden to enter and stooped in humility and pushed it under the seal!
Duc de Praslin: I received it, Frances.
Duchesse de Praslin: But look! You didn't even open it! Oh Theo, do you suppose this empty pretense is what I hoped for?Lastnight I begged for you to come to me! I hoped we might start this journey today united as we once were! Theo, Theo! Have you completely forgotten the life we once shared together?
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Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Desperation (2006) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

The War of the Roses

surprisingly moving soap opera of sorts

This is among my favorite Bette Davis movies. While not perfect, the story and romance suck you right in and make it hard to stop watching.

Ms. Davis plays against type, as she is the almost sickeningly wonderful nanny who ultimately beguiles married Charles Boyer. You see, Bette is hired to care for his children because his wife is a self-centered hypochondriac and has less maternal instincts than the average hamster. However, despite Boyer falling for the nanny, the nanny is chaste and won't consider breaking up the marriage--even if it is such an unhappy one. Eventually, the wife realizes that her husband has fallen head over heels and what she does in response is too good to divulge--it would help to ruin the movie for you.

If you want great acting, a tight script and a bit of a soapy romance (and who doesn't now and again?), give this movie a try.