On the strength of Leave Her to Heaven's box office performance, Darryl F. Zanuck cast Gene Tierney to star in The Razor's Edge (1946), with Tyrone Power. He even juggled Power's schedule to take advantage of her rise in popularity (Power's Captain from Castile [1947] had originally been scheduled as his first post-World War II film).

Tierney and Cornel Wilde re-created their roles for a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation in 1947. Lux did the story again in 1953, but with Joan Fontaine and John Dehner in the starring roles.

In 1978, the daytime drama The Edge of Night took a page out of Leave Her to Heaven's book with the tortured romance of Dr. Miles Cavanaugh (Joel Crothers) and Nicole Drake (Maeve McGuire). Like Richard and Ruth, they were tormented by his insanely jealous wife, Denise (Holland Taylor), who eventually convinced her father to kill her but planted evidence framing Miles for the murder.

Loni Anderson took a stab at villainy for a 1988 telemovie adaptation called Too Good to Be True. Patrick Duffy co-starred as her husband, with Glynnis O'Connor as her half-sister, Julie Harris as her mother and Neil Patrick Harris as Duffy's brother.

by Frank Miller