All That Heaven Allows
A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.
All that heaven allows. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is a classic Douglas Sirk melodrama with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson that was the inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinders ALI FEAR EATS THE SOUL 1973 and Todd Hayness. Sirk presents these natural situations in a very staged deliberate fashion. All That Heaven Allows.
Theres no denying that the melodrama label applies negative connotations and all. Meticulously researched All That Heaven Allows offers a full-scale exploration of Hudsons immense body of workon film on television and on stage. All that Heaven Allows has been lurking on my bookshelf for a very long time and I thought what better way to enjoy my evening but with a nice melodrama.
FULL AUDIOBOOK available here. What really makes this movie other than Jane and Rock is the script and story. Their budding romance is frowned upon by the surrounding small town community including Carries grown children because of both the age and class.
Starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson this film tells the story of Cory Scott an affluent widow who falls in love with her gardener. More than thirty years after his death Rock Hudsons storysensational heartbreaking and courageoushas finally been told in All That Heaven Allows. Set in New England in the 20th Century.
But the best. With Jane Wyman Rock Hudson Agnes Moorehead Conrad Nagel. This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow Jane Wyman and her handsome and earthy younger gardener Rock Hudson.
All That Heaven Allows relays the dilemma of Carrie Scott Jane Wyman an attractive middle-aged widow who unexpectedly falls in love with Ron Kirby Rock Hudson her much younger gardner. The story of the film All That Heaven Allows was about a widow from the bourgeois class who fell in love with her gardener. A Biography of Rock Hudson.