All That Heaven Allows

Ben Mankiewicz introduces All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

A lonely widow (Jane Wyman) defies small-town gossip when she falls for a younger man (Rock Hudson) in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955).

Escorted by stately Harvey (Conrad Nagel), Connecticut widow Cary (Jane Wyman) turns heads at the country club, cruelly greeted by Mona (Jacqueline de Wit), defended by Sara (Agnes Moorehead) then jumped by Howard (Donald Curtis), social tumult in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

Using the Universal backlot as suburban Connecticut, Agnes Moorehead as Sara conducts exposition regarding Jane Wyman (as "Cary,") at first hardly noticing the hunky gardener Ron (Rock Hudson), opening Douglas Sirk's celebrated All That Heaven Allows, 1955, produced by Ross Hunter.

Having surrendered to the invitation from her handsome, confident gardener Ron (Rock Hudson) to visit his Connecticut tree farm, widow Cary (Jane Wyman) finds herself further driven by impulse, a famous scene from Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, 1955.