Forgive Me - Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

[PsychLion]

God she was gorgeous.

[northernoir]

Regarding Marilyn Monroe,Norma Jean Baker was much prettier,without the artificial hair color,and fake voice.Too bad we were not presented with the real woman.

[VTMCompany]

Lovely as she is in her own right, costar Jeanne Crain ("Ruth") is no match for this Gene ("Ellen.")

[northernoir]

To 555666 1878.

Amen.She was indeed everything you have said and more.She has no equal.We were indeed

blessed with her sublime presence.God bless Gene Eliza Tierney.

[FalseFlag369]

It's amazing what a fine actress she was. I was drawn in to her character, and suspended in time and space until the film was over. One can have sympathy for her, and at the same time realize that she has lost her sense of reality.

[tasceaie1493]

Jean was the most beautiful woman I ever seen from the time I was little. Wanted her to be Scarlett O'Hara. This movie was really good.

[updog88]

Most everyone was more beautiful than Marilyn....but Marilyn worked harder than anyone to be photographed as a beauty.

[LocoGroove]

lol la noire

[Sirgreaseflick]

Gene Tierney and Veronica Lake were the most dazzling, most bewitching, most disarming starlets to ever light up a screen. Their cheekbones are almost identical; both had wickedly modish hairstyles..besides that, this film is certified Gold: it's quirky, absurdly well filmed, and Gene acts wonderfully...not that she needs to. Ava Gardner said: "When I first saw Lake and Tierney I thought, 'I hope they're not the extra's, cause I'd be out of a job." Exceptional, classy stuff, albeit loopy, too

[updog88]

@Sirgreaseflick but they were somewhat cold and aloof....I liked how Rita Hayworth could also embody that feline quality but could also be warm, magnetic, and erotic.

[jebadiah4]

I think this is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.... next to my fiance of course! :-s

[5556661678]

This woman is the embodiment of profound beauty. The rare beauty that comes only once in life. The first time I saw her in this movie, it's been so hard not to think about her. I absolutely loved her in this movie". Her acting prowess and everlasting beauty shall live on. She's the most radiant, talented, unique, and without a doubt the most beautiful actress I've ever witnessed.

[lukebccb]

You see BEFORE 1934 and AFTER the DEFACTO death of the production code in the early 60s there were a HUGE demand for for those "racy" and "provocative" films so the MONEY MAKING movie industry made "those" films.

So sorry to all YOU "world was so much more wholesome then" dreamers...... the "bad nasty moral movies" have been around FORever and reflect society.

Get over america was NEVER the land of the white picket fence...

[lukebccb]

ALL those snivelling about "oh movies were much more wholesome 'back then'" because the movies had to be "wholesome" cause of something called the "movie production code" that was self-censorship by the movie industry from 1934 to around the later 1950/early 60s.

BEFORE 1934 - including 20s silents - movies were being made that even surprises person in the present day for how "racy" and "pushing the limit" they were.

(cont.)

[bearcub410]

i think gene tierney was one of the most beautiful woman that ever lived .

[chilvari]

Not to mention, entertainment reflects the time. Because we're in an era where people blatantly go outside half dressed, do drugs and get pregnant, and all this other corruption, naturally, entertainment and entertainers of this era borrow from that (and abuse it; just listen to today's music and watch today's music videos).

[chilvari]

I miss how movies were simply outstanding without cuss words, sex scenes and all other vulgarities. There are alot of movies these days that are great that have sex and violence in some scenes. But back in this era, movies were effortlessly amazing without all of that. I think great movies of the past relied more on actual acting and performing while great movies of today rely more on technique, like imagery and technology. There are some great modern actors and actresses though.

[123romanovski]

Simply the most beautiful actress ever ! It is about talent and beauty ! She is simply gorgeous , breathtaking and exquisite !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[melaniehoover]

Gene Tierney is very beautiful and amazing i love her and i love her movies

[lukebccb]

@melaniehoover: Jeanne Crain wasn't bad either.

[Sasse90]

Oh my god. When she says "Forgive me" : hot as hell !

[honeybeeman]

but she is so sexy she looks like she is a naughty girl, why the fuck is he cheatin on her? she is a little wound up though jesus

[Nierwen]

@honeybeeman He's not unfalthful. Ellen is pathologically jealous of anyone who comes between her and whoever she's obsessed with. She was pathologically (sexually?) obsessed with and possessive of her own father, and now her extreme jealousy is focused on her husband. Ellen murders her husband's crippled brother, drives away her own mother and sister, and even kills her own unborn baby out of jealousy. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that Ellen has psychopathy or malignant narcissism.

[Nierwen]

@honeybeeman He's not unfaithful. Ellen is pathologically jealous of anyone who comes between her and whoever she's obsessed with. She was pathologically (sexually?) obsessed with and possessive of her own father, and now her extreme jealousy is focused on her husband. Ellen murders her husband's crippled brother, drives away her own mother and sister, and even kills her own unborn baby out of jealousy. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that Ellen has psychopathy or malignant narcissism.

[honeybeeman]

fuckin creepy

[luiscar89]

Thanks Frostbite, I can't think of a face more beautiful than hers. God knows how I love this woman... One of my all time favorite actress. She had that unknown and delicious aristocratic touch which made her unrepeatable. Divina Gene. Thanks again Frostbite :-)

[sashaqueenie]

I love faces like that. That face! 'sigh' that face.

[snailsbeak]

What a beauty!!!

[PauLatinaPower]

This woman can not be real. I have never seen a more BEAUTIFUL FACE in my whole entire life!!!

[stitchgrl777]

@PauLatinaPower That's exactly what I thought the first time I saw her. She's unreal.

[VTMCompany]

watch gene's movements...jeanne can't move like that...tierney outshines crain...

[stitchgrl777]

@VTMCompany She has a bigger presence for sure. Jeanne is cute but plain-jane next to Gene.

[leafyutube]

I saw this on TV years ago when I was a kid. Boy, Gene is one super bitch in this movie. Haha!

[Mitesoro111]

The ending is controversial. The husband and sister also seem malicious.

[xXxRav3rRawrBabyxXx]

She's a doll. <3

[Roman888]

Her face was so beautiful it almost looked unreal. Those feline eyes and porcelain cheekbones...WOW.

[ummmiloveu]

@Roman888 yes GOD spent ALOT of time on her. it's like her face was beautiful crafted. sigh.... -_- ... now ME on the other hand thats a different story. LOL : D

when i watched laura i cried b/c she so beyond gorgeous....!! for some reason really really beautiful women who are also alluring do that to me. and im a female.

[shivaboyd]

This movie is phenomenal. :D

[Artsettimavn]

I think this is one of the 10 best films ever made ranking right up there with Vertigo and Mrs. Miniver. The scene on the staircase is my most unshakable film memory. Unfortunately, I know women like this.

[Mitesoro111]

The child's death is horrible. But the husband and sister are worse than she, appears to have caused. If he had loved most, she was not jealous of both.

In the end he goes to the cottage with his sister in sonde site would not go with her. It is disrespectful.

[stitchgrl777]

@Mitesoro111 That's EXACTLY what I think. It is DISGUSTING that he and the sister get together. And the sister wanted him ALL along. Therefore, Ellen's jealousy was not misplaced, just too strong. She went about it the wrong way. She could have tried to be "friends" with the husband somehow. but she can't change her nature.

Either way, I absolutely hate the ending and it makes me sick to my stomach.

[frodo322]

@stitchgrl777 No, I think Ellen was genuinely sick, it had something to do with her relationship with her father, something is not talked about in the movie. But the way she acts, it's not only jealousy. She didn't want her husband to be with anybody else, she wanted him only to be hers and she was ready to kill if someone stood in the way, that's sick. 

[mywords07]

o my GOD! I luv this movie! Thanx 4 postin' it!

[dia33386]

Probably the most beauiful woman ever & an excellent actress. She deserved the oscar for this role in "Leave Her To Heaven"!

The only comparable actress today is Michelle Pfeiffer - same great facial bone structure & hauntingly beautiful eyes.

[bookhead92]

Gene Tierney is unbelievably beautiful!

[Bailey1947]

Gene was so unbelievably seductive in this film. She makes me come unhinged.

[antnantn]

What a hot chick! The only person more beautiful is Elizabeth Taylor in her prime! Yes?

[xoxclaudia101xox]

and vivien leigh..maybe hedy lamarr and ava gardner. those 6 brunettes are so hard to choose from! all so beautiful, but gene my god she was stunning

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Yea, you're right! Vivien Leigh and Hedy Lamarr and Ava Gardner are all very pretty. Gene was grgeous as well.

[twilson11208]

Gene had the better body...in fact I would go with face as well. However many would consider it a toss up, add Ava, Hedy, and Rita...goodness, now the monkey wrench has really been thrown in. How can one actually choose?

[Roman888]

My ranking: Gene>Hedy>Elizabeth>>Rita.

[leafyutube]

@Roman888, don't forget Ava Gardner. She was super hot!

[jmrleroy]

Why choose, enjoy all

[stitchgrl777]

@antnantn I prefer Gene, personally

[sampopular]

she was more beautiful than Marilyn

[gnsback]

@sampopular Yes, I agree. Marilyn did not have to overdo it so much. Had she looked just a bit conservative and as lovely with her hair, for example, as it was in her last film, Something's Got to Give, she would have done better, I think. Gene Tierney had a deep earthy sensuous quality along with the slim face with such symmetrical aquiline features and those green, or emerald eyes she was completely exotic. Warning,Gene can grow on you the more you watch her. Notice her perfect intonation.

[SarahJoyBrownFan]

@sampopular

Everyone is more beautiful than Marilyn.

[chilvari]

@sampopular haha! those were my first thoughts too after seeing her in this movie and thinking of other classic beauties. She really is prettier than Marilyn.

[thegoldenera]

Great movie, long time no see. Thanks for the post.

[globehunter2]

She was truly beautiful! i really loved the soft vibrant look of the 40,s.

[PsionicJedi]

Gene looks beautiful.