LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN

"Have you ever known what it's like to be really hungry?" "I'm hungry now!"--a suggestive exchange in Leave Her to Heaven

Last night I saw the 1946 melodrama Leave Her to Heaven (for the second time) at the Event Screen.  I was there with the Classic Movies Meetup, who formed over half the audience!  

It was shown as part of the Film 101 series, and Murray Pomerance introduced it: "It's about to get colder in here.  It's going to get very, very cold!" It's the one about Gene Tierney falling in such obsessive love with Cornel Wilde that she lets her kid brother drown, falls down the stairs to miscarry (didn't Bette David so that in Beyond the Forest?), and kills herself in a way that frames her cousin Jeanne Crain for her murder.  Vincent Price shows up as a prosecutor.

I've got really lazy lately.  Sometimes in the afternoon I don't feel like going online or watching TV or anything, but just get into bed.  (Mother spent a lot of time in bed in her last years.)

On page 104 of The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper finally reveals that the tall, dark stranger is called Oliver Edwards.