The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 11, 1940

Leave Her to Heaven (by John van Druten; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brought Actress Ruth Chatterton to Broadway for the first time in nearly 15 years. It was not much of a homecoming. Playwright van Druten's idea of celebrating was to bring on the stage some distinctly unattractive people who do decidedly unsavory things and come to extremely unpleasant ends. And he did his best to make the play as dull as it was depressing.

Leave Her to Heaven tells of a middle-aged married woman who has an affair with her young chauffeur....

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