Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 24, 1940

All This and Heaven Too (Warner).

Last week the Brothers Warner released their biggest picture of 1940 with loud protestation that it would rival Gone With the Wind. It picturized Rachel Field's best-selling ventilation of certain Parisian scandals concerning her great-aunt by marriage. This unhappy tale, long locked away among the respectable annals of the New England Field family, was soon devoured by avid U. S. novel readers to the number of 245,000.

From the start, All This and Heaven Too had a better chance to make the movies than a producer's girl friend....

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