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Author:

Heaven can wait (Motion picture : 1943)

Title:

Heaven can wait / Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; Ernst Lubitsch's production ; screenplay by Samson Raphaelson ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Edition:

Criterion collection.
Blu-ray special edition.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (8 unnumbered pages ; folded to 17 x 12 cm)

Subject:

Devil--Drama.
Adultery--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Hell--Drama.
Heaven--Drama.
Adultery.
Devil.
Heaven.
Hell.
Man-woman relationships.
Romantic comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Romantic comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947, film director.
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983, screenwriter.
Ameche, Don. actor.
Tierney, Gene. actor.
Coburn, Charles, actor.
Cregar, Laird, 1913-1944, actor.
Main, Marjorie, 1890-1975, actor.
Byington, Spring, 1886-1971, actor.
Joslyn, Allyn, 1901-1981, actor.
Cronjager, Edward, 1904-1960, director of photography.
Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970, composer (expression)
Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002, editor of moving image work.
Based on (work): Bús-Fekete, László, 1896-1971. Birthday.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Based upon the play "Birthday" by Lazlo Bus-Fekete. Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar, Marjorie Main, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: Conversation frm 2005 between critics Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris; Creativity with Bill Moyers; Audio seminar with Raphaelson and Richard Corliss; home recordings of Ernst Lubitsch playing the piano; trailer; essay by William Paul.

Summary:

Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 291

ISBN:

1681434954
9781681434957

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1043671169

UPC:

715515219914

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)