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All That Heaven Allows

Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Neighbor

Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama pairs Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a lush tale of forbidden love between a New England widow and her gardener.

The Mad Men Connection: Housewife Betty Draper, continually plagued by oppressive societal pressures, might relate.

This film is shown as part of the It’s a Mad Men’s World film series as well as in conjunction with a Summer Classics Seminar. All That Heaven Allows will be introduced by the seminar's instructor, Alice Bullitt, M.A.

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