Heaven Can Wait
Starring: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Samson Raphaelson, Ernst Lubitsch
Producer: 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.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
- The film was made on a budget of $1,115,400.
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 7 Festivals
8,179 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (September 5, 1943)
Original Run: September 5, 1943 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (10):
- September 5, 1943 (Sunday - Wednesday)Gene Tierney, Don Ameche
- March 5, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ To Be or Not to Be, Cluny Brown, Rings on Her Fingers
- January 18 - 20, 1992 · 1,532 ticketsw/ The Merry Widow (1934), The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
- December 10 - 11, 2005 · 764 ticketsFall2005w/ Portrait of Jennie
- March 5 - 6, 2009 · 627 ticketsWinter 2009w/ Rings on Her Fingers
- February 12 - 14, 2011 · 1,223 ticketsWinter 2011 Early Bette Davis, Val Lewton and morew/ The Gang's All Here
- December 19 - 23, 2014 · 1,884 ticketsNovember–December 2014, plus The Ten Commandmentsw/ The Shop Around the Corner
- March 25 - 26, 2017 · 913 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ Cluny Brown
- August 14 - 16, 2019 · 508 ticketsSummer 2019w/ Cluny Brown
- April 5 - 6, 2025 · 728 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Cluny Brown