Heaven on Earth (1927) 261-134 Conrad Nagel and Renée Adorée 261-164 Renée Adorée 261-171 Pat Hartigan and Renée Adorée "Heaven on Earth" M-G-M          Length: 6397 ft. DELIGHTFULLY APPEALING ROMANCE THAT WENDS IT WAY INTO THE WORLD WAR IN A VERY EFFECTIVE BUT RATHER ANTI-CLIMACTIC EPISODE. Cast... Renee Adoree the petite French gypsy lass and Conrad Nagel the grown up poor-little-rich boy who finds happiness in his love for the blue-eyed Renee.  Others Gwen Lee, Julia Swayne Gordon, Marcia Manon, Pat Hartigan. Story and Production... Dramatic romance. "Heaven on Earth" is really a charming little romance, pleasingly told, well acted and with a picturesque French locale that, all together, provide a quite enjoyable entertainment. The picture is a trifle too long and the war sequence which serves for a non the less excellent dramatic climax, might have been handled in a manner that would have made the development not quite so anti-climactic. It tells of the youless existence of a boy of wealth reared by an aunt who did everything -- even thought for him. He leaves home when she arranges a loveless marriage and after various separations is happy with the gypsy girl he loves. Direction..........Phil Rosen; usually good. Scenario..........Harvey Gates Photography..........John Arnold; very good. --- The Film Daily, Sunday June 26, 1927, p.9 HEAVEN ON EARTH Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, directed by Phil Rosen. From the story by Harvey Gates. Featuring Conrad Nagel and Renee Adoree, with cast including Gwen Lee, Jessica Gordon, Marcia Mave and Pat Hartigan. At Loew's American, June 2-3. Running time, about one hour. A good box-office title and irresistible story appeal stupidly directed and miscast. It is on stories of this kind that some of the greatest picture successes have been based. An autocratic, all-powerful aunt, accustomed to directing the destinies of the largest silk mills in Southern France and incidentally ruling the social, political and financial destinies of the townfolk, has raised an apparently emotionless nephew under the same restrainin gpolicy. The idea was to prepare for the inevitable break wieh the young man's passions would assert themselves. As far as Phil Rosen was concerned, it was sufficient that a tremendously powerful character such as the aunt should exist only in the subtitles. The woman in the role was quite pleasant, if at times a little firm, but far from the ruthless tyrant described. Conrad Nagel is the nephew. He looks the clean-cut young American business man, and putting ona pair of velvet breeches and a tam doesn't change the impression. The break is quite passionless, and the disappearance from home handled too easily to cause eye tension. Renee Adoree is the gypsy caravan girl whom the wealthy young man meets and loves. They travel together along the country roads, living in a freedom often dreamt of but never achieved. The love scenes her offered some fine opportunities, but the director kept his young man scrupulously as emotionless as before the break from home. Metro can even now take the story and with slight changes by another director the results will probably be so far different from this production as to be presentable for sale as another production. Picture is too lustreless for the first-runs, hardly reaching usual M-G-M production standards. It has not played the Capitol on Broadway, but got one day at Loew's New York. --- Variety, Wednesday, June 8, 1927, p. 17 with Renée Adorée, Conrad Nagel, and Gwen Lee. Directed by Phil Rosen. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. More Information on this film...                                      This work (Heaven on Earth (1927), by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), identified by Bruce Calvert, is free of known copyright restrictions. Books (none) Last Modified March 15, 2025