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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

★ 7.4Approved143 minDirector: Anatole Litvak

1940 film by Anatole Litvak

All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 American drama film released by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the 1938 novel by Rachel Field. The music was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Ernie Haller. The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris and Montagu Love.

Field's novel is based on the true story of her great-aunt Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Deluzy-Desportes was implicated. The scandal contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 that deposed King Louis Philippe I.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is All This, and Heaven Too about?
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) — When lovely, virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile, obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely je
Is All This, and Heaven Too based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
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