Warning.... will empty a tissue box really quickly
All This and Heaven Too is a Film the pulls every emotional heartstring a peron could have , in one of the Stella performances Bette Davis had given in her career ,
This fits into the Mary poppins /sound of Music gene of Nanny comes into home and brings happiness to family with two exceptions, No singing and ends in a grisly Murder (spoiler alert) Based of a true event.
A governess in 19th Century France, who lands a position working for Theo, Duc De Praslin (Charles Boyer from Gaslight) and his family. The children adore the new, governess, but Boyer's psycho bitch wife, the Duchesse (Barbara O'Neil Scarlet's Mother ),in a very different character from that she played in Gone with the Wind a year before, is resentful of the intrusion into her family. The new addition to the family works her magic on everyone but the Duchesse. Theo and Henriette, predictably, begin to fall in love, which further complicates things, sending the crazy wife into even more rages of insanity.If you have a good eye you will notice that one of the children is June Lockhart (The mother from lost in space) to as the eldest child who gives such a touching and genuine performance with her big wide eyedness , she trys to be strong and show a strong front for her younger sisters and brother , All of this builds momentum until a climactic crime of passion takes a life.
its been forgotten but is really a good story, It shouldnt be remade but it is was it could win a swag of oscars
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