"Leave Her to Heaven", a 1945 American psychological thriller film noir, is a film where Vincent Price doesn't play a villain. It is a movie directed by John M. Stahl and stars Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Jeanne Crain along with Price. The plot follows a socialite who marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

In the film, Gene Tierney plays Ellen Berent Harland. She is vacationing at a luxurious desert resort, and begin a whirlwind romance with a man named Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde). He is fascinated by Ellen's exotic beauty and intense personality. The pair get married later in this film.

The couple's affair however at the resort was interrupted when Ellen's fiancé, attorney Russell Quinton (Price), from whom she is separated, arrives unexpectedly. Ellen will announce at the time that she and Richard are going to be married. This is a surprise to Richard. Shocked by her fiancé's unannounced visit, Ellen takes Russell into the library and tells him that she truly changed her mind about marrying him. Russell has been a good guy to all.

The film's screenplay adapted by Jo Swerling was based on the 1944 novel "Leave Her to Heaven" by Ben Ames Williams. The cinematography was performed by Leon Shamroy, and James B. Clark edited this movie. Music arrangements were handled by Alfred Newman. "Leave Her to Heaven" was both a critical and commercial success. It was the second highest-grossing film of 1945.

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