All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a welltodo widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. The film was directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter.
Cary Scott Jane Wyman is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, collegeage children, and a few men vying for her affection.She becomes interested in Ron Kirby Rock Hudson, her gardener, an intelligent, downtoearth and respectful yet passionate younger man. Ron is content with his simple life outside the materialistic society and the two fall in love. Ron introduces her to people who seem to have no need for wealth and status and she responds positively. Cary accepts his proposal of marriage, but becomes distressed when her friends and collegeage children are angry. They look down upon Ron and his friends and reject their mother for this socially unacceptable arrangement. Eventually, bowing to this pressure, she breaks off the engagement. ........
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