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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Director(s)	Anatole Litvak
Producer(s)	David Lewis (associate), Hal B. Wallis (executive), Anatole Litvak (uncredited)
Top Genres	Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance
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Featured Cast:

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Bette Davis
(as Henriette Deluzy)

Charles Boyer
(as Duc de Praslin)

Jeffrey Lynn
(as Henry Martyn Field)

All This, and Heaven Too Overview:

All This, and Heaven Too (1940) was a Black-and-white - Drama Film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Hal B. Wallis, Anatole Litvak and David Lewis.

SYNOPSIS

A nobleman falls in love with his children's governess and then murders his wife. Unfortunately, the governess goes to jail after the royal philanderer kills himself. Great performances by Boyer as the Duke and Davis as the governess bring Rachel Field's bestselling book to life.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)

Award	Recipient	Result
Best Supporting Actress	Barbara O'Neil	Nominated
Best Cinematography	Ernest Haller	Nominated
Best Picture	Warner Bros.	Nominated

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Quotes from

Henriette Deluzy-Desportes: Happiness isn't a little cake which we can cut up to fill our appetites.

Duchesse de Praslin: Don't leave me, Theo!
Duc de Praslin: I'm late in Paris.
Duchesse de Praslin: But... I must talk to you! I never see you!
Duc de Praslin: The king expects me.
Duchesse de Praslin: [She grabs for his hands and he pulls it away] Does even the touch of my hands feel you with aversion?
Duc de Praslin: Oh really Frances...
Duchesse de Praslin: It must be aversion you feel since you always avoid me, never giving me a moment's thought or attention!
Duc de Praslin: I have no wish to avoid you Frances. I would talk to you by the hour if we could do so with calmness and sanity, but it always ends the same. -He begins walking out.
Duchesse de Praslin: Wait! Theo! Wait! Oh how cruel you are my darling! Take the children! Take them! I care nothing about them, about anyone but you! Theo! If I promise never again to torment you with my anger, with my unreasoning mistrust... Theo!
Duc de Praslin: You don't know what you're saying.
Duchesse de Praslin: Theo! Theo! Come back! Theo I beg you! Oh, Theo come back! -She sees he is already gone and becomes hysteric: I hate you! I loathe you! You're wicked! Wicked! Wicked!

Henriette Deluzy-Desportes: You may not have learned much French today, but I think you have learned a little patience and tolerance and that is the same in every language.

Facts about

Upon their first meeting, the Duchesse de Praslin asks Henriette how old she is, revealing the answer to be 25-years-old; the Duchesse considers this "so young". Amusingly enough in real life, Barbara O'Neil was twenty-nine years old at the time of filming, while Bette Davis was two years older.

Francis, the Duchesse de Praslin, refers to her husband as Theo, the shortened version of Theobald, which was just one of three of his middle-names. His first name was Charles.

In 1941 Barbara O'Neil was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in this movie. She lost to Jane Darwell and her performance in The Grapes of Wrath.

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