Heaven Can Wait

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Don Ameche, in a tuxedo, sits beside Gene Tierney, who is reclining on a couch in an elaborate gown, in a scene from Heaven Can Wait (1943) with bookshelves in the background.

Heaven Can Wait

film by Lubitsch [1943]

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Ernst Lubitsch
Films of the 1940s
Heaven Can Wait (1943), Lubitsch’s first film under a new producer-director contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, was a bittersweet period comedy in which a ladies’ man (Don Ameche) reviews a lifetime of romantic malfeasance for a skeptical Satan (Laird Cregar) as he awaits admittance to hell.…
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Heaven Can Wait (1943), Lubitsch’s first film under a new producer-director contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, was a bittersweet period comedy in which a ladies’ man (Don Ameche) reviews a lifetime of romantic malfeasance for a skeptical Satan (Laird Cregar) as he awaits admittance to hell.…
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