Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie BushFekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
An aged Henry Van Cleve Don Ameche enters the opulent reception area of Hell, to be personally greeted by His Excellency Laird Cregar. Henry petitions to be admitted fully aware of the kind of life he had led, but there is some doubt as to his qualifications. To prove his worthiness or rather unworthiness, he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life.Born in Manhattan on October 25, 1872, Henry is the spoiled only child of stuffy, clueless, wealthy parents Randolph Louis Calhern and Bertha Spring Byington. His paternal grandmother Clara Blandick in an uncredited role is also doting and naive, although his downtoearth grandfather Hugo Van Cleve Charles Coburn, a selfmade millionaire, understands Henry quite well. Henry grows up an idle young man, with a taste for attractive showgirls. One day, Henry overhears a beautiful woman lying to her mother on a public telephone. Intrigued, he follows her into a Brentanos and pretends to be an employee to get to know her better. Despite learning that she is engaged, he begins making advances, finally confessing he does not work there, whereupon she hastily departs. ........
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