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Show Gene Tierney in Intense Drama Playing at Centre The relentless and savase fight of a girl to completely monopolize the interest and affection af-fection of the man she loves is ! the dramatic theme of "Leave i Her To Heaven," 20th Century-Fox's Century-Fox's Technicolor film version of the Ben Ames Williams bestseller, best-seller, which stars Gene Tierney, Tier-ney, Cornel Wilde and Jeannie Crain, and opens today at the Centre theater. The story revolves around beautiful Ellen Berent, who wants to be loved as intensely as she, herself loves and wno will stop at nothing, even murder, mur-der, to achieve what she wants. To have her husband completely com-pletely to herself, this girl cold-shoulders cold-shoulders her own mother and sister, antagonizes his closest friends, lets his crippled younger young-er brother drown, and when she finally ends up as a suicide, deliberately de-liberately makes her death look like murder. In the role of Eileen Berent. one of the most challenging parts ever tackled by any actress. ac-tress. Gene Tierney's problem is to prove on the screen that a girl in love can be fiendishlv. jealous and, vice-versa, to prove that a fiendishly jealous female also can be lovable. It's a difficult role recognized recogniz-ed as the most difficult ever attempted at-tempted by, or allotted to, a movie glamour girl. It's a powerful pow-erful symbol of Miss Tierney's determination to be a dramatic, actress. Cornel Wilde, back on his home lot for the first time since becoming a star on "loan out.'' to another studio plays the husband. hus-band. Jeanne Crain, one of Hollywood's Hol-lywood's most brilliant young stars, plays the sister who unconsciously un-consciously become Ellen's rival. ri-val. ' Also featured in the cast are Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart, Reed Hadley, Darryl Hickman and Chill Wills. |