All that Heaven Allows "The studio loved the title All that Heaven Allows.  They thought it meant you could have everything you wanted.  I meant it exactly the other way round.  As far as I am concerned, heaven is stingy."  -- Douglas Sirk (3) "Few Sirkian images are as haunting as Jane Wyman's stark reflection in the new TV that her children have given her to ease the loneliness of her widowhood in All That Heaven Allows." -- Marjorie Baumgarten "All That Heaven Allows is justly celebrated as one of Sirk’s most visually arresting films, and despite the difficulty some viewers will have with what looks like an unrepentant "weepie" mentality, there are images of exceptional power."    -- (7) "[In this] frankly feminine fiction...solid and sensible drama plainly had to give way to outright emotional bulldozing and a paving of easy cliches."  -- Bosley Crowther, 1956, reported in (5) My thoughts: go here
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