While traveling by train in New Mexico, novelist Richard Harland meets Ellen Berent, a beautiful socialite from Boston. She is particularly drawn to him, as he reminds her of her deceased father, to whom she had an obsessive attachment.

Ellen "Berent" Harland is the main antagonist of the novel Leave Her to Heaven and its 1945 film adaptation. She was portrayed by the late Gene Tierney. Ellen becomes enraptured by author Richard Harland, and does everything in her power to keep him to herself.

Mar 24, 2020 · The doomed romance at the center of the movie is in fact launched by the bare, shameless gaze of Ellen Berent (Tierney), whose eyes land on our hero, the novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), seated across from her in a train’s club car.

Ellen "Berent" Harland is the main antagonist of the 1944 novel Leave Her to Heaven by the late Ben Ames Williams, and its 1945 film adaptation of the same name. Ellen becomes enraptured by author Richard Harland, and does everything in her power to keep him to herself.

Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen's love for Richard is obsessive - possessive, and wants Richard all to herself.

Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 Psychological Thriller Film Noir directed by John M. Stahl and starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain and Vincent Price. Richard Harland (Wilde) is a writer who meets beautiful Boston socialite Ellen Berent (Tierney) on a train to New Mexico.

Apr 19, 2019 · Leave Her to Heaven is depicted as an extended flashback revolving around femme fatale, Ellen. The film version tells the story of novelist Richard Harland coming back to his island home after a prison stay. On his way, he meets socialite Ellen Berent, who falls in love with him because he resembles her recently deceased father.

Ellen Berent Harland : I know you'll understand, Dr. Mason. I gave up my honeymoon to come here so that my husband could be with his brother. But he's been working, and the burden's been on me. I've spent hours here, every day.

Apr 15, 2020 · Gene Tierney came close to missing out on the opportunity to play the iconic femme fatale Ellen Berent. The role was initially offered to Rita Hayworth, who turned it down. 8. Tierney was married to Oleg Cassini, who designed the costumes for Leave Her to Heaven, as well as for a number of Tierney’s other films of the 1940s and ’50s. (The ...

instead of pursuing Russell, the psycho-insanely-jealous, father-obsessed, neurotically-possessive, and heartless femme fatale Ellen expressed her strong intent to marry the deceived Richard, to his great surprise when she called him her new "fiancee"; she fanatically vowed that she would stop at nothing to make the man she loved her exclus...