Harold B. Lee Library

All This, and Heaven Too

Starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil, Harry Davenport

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, Januray 23, 2009
• Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event
Starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil, Harry Davenport. Rachel Field’s best-seller about a real-life governess, Henriette Deluzy Desportes, implicated in the death of the wife of 19th century French diplomat Duc de Praslin, with whom she had been having an affair, was a sensation when it came out in 1938. The otherwise flamboyant Davis is more restrained in this role and pulls it off magnificently. ‘Her calm, her understatement in everything she said and did,” wrote Davis, “was a challenge to me as an actress. Henriette was an extremely difficult part for me to play.” This lavish production, one of the studio’s biggest of the year, was directed by top Warner Bros. director Anatole Litvak (Sorry Wrong Number, The Snake Pit, Anastasia). Utah-born Casey Robinson, a mainstay screenwriter at Warner Bros., who excelled at literary adaptations, carefully structured the drama and tension from the long Field novel. Studio composer Max Steiner finished off this lavish historical drama with a superbly atmospheric music score. The interesting backstory will be told prior to the screening. Warner Bros., 1940. 143 mins. Director: Anatole Litvak.

Links and Materials

• Digital Copy of Original Poster

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