nahant Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 A few years ago TCM would often play this charming movie that takes place around 1900 where an elderly man has passed and is looking back at his life. The movie is in technicolor. The movie is a comedy showing the man being raised in a wealthy family romancing women and falling in love and marrying a beautiful brunette woman. At the end the devil is deciding weather the man lived a good life and due to his wifes love he is granted heaven. Any guesses of this movie are greatly appreciated I have been trying to figure it out for quit some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 It's *Heaven Can Wait* (1943) with Don Ameche and Gene Tierney. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=77625 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nahant Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Thank you very much! This is one of my favorite movies and it has been driving me crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 HERE COMES MR. JORDAN was also supposed to be called HEAVEN CAN WAIT but the Ameche film beat it to the punch. The Warren Beatty remake of JORDAN was in fact called HEAVEN CAN WAIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nahant Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 I have also seen this one, but for me Don Ameche cant be beat. Thank you for the interesting information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudson_Hawk Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > HERE COMES MR. JORDAN was also supposed to be called HEAVEN CAN WAIT but the Ameche film beat it to the punch. The Warren Beatty remake of JORDAN was in fact called HEAVEN CAN WAIT. HEAVEN CAN WAIT didn't "beat" HERE COMES MR JORDAN "to the punch." When it became evident that both 20th Century-Fox and Columbia were preparing fantasies with identical titles, they came to a gentleman's agreement that the former studio could lay claim to it (since titles can't be copyrighted). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Did Columbia get anything in return, e.g., money? HEAVEN CAN WAIT as a title certainly has a lot more pizazz than HERE COMES MR. JORDAN. Message was edited by: finance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudson_Hawk Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I agree, though the title is a bit more appropriate for MR JORDAN than it is for the Lubitsch film. No, I doubt that any money changed hands. More likely Columbia just agreed that it was to owe Fox a favor, such as lending them a star on very favorable terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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