Heaven Can Wait (1943)
With Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Eugene Pallette
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 American supernatural romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, and Charles Coburn. The film follows Henry Van Cleve, a man brought up in late 19th-century New York who, upon his death in 1942, attempts to argue to Satan that he deserves to be in Hell based on his life choices. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the play Birthday by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
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