All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Douglas Sirk, directorWednesday, March 5, 2008
6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Free and open to the public.
A feature film about an upper-class widow who falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth gardener, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers. Starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Lynne Layton, clinical assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory
