The façade later cannibalized to make up the front of the Bates home in Psycho (1960) is visible a few houses up from Cary Scott's (Jane Wyman's) block.
A major part of the movie revolves around the fact that Jane Wyman's character is supposed to be substantially older than Rock Hudson. In reality, Jane Wyman was 38 and Rock Hudson was 30 when they filmed this movie.
The haunting music used prominently in the credits and throughout the film in piano and orchestral arrangement is Franz Liszt's Consolation #3 in D flat major.
The set was re-designed to mimic an upper-middle class New England town. The film contains only one visible crane shot, when the camera scans over the fictional town of Stoningham during the opening credits. Tracking and dollying shots were used frequently for interior shots.
The house Jane Wyman's character lives in (on Universal's "Colonial Street" back lot) was built on rented Universal property by Paramount Pictures for The Desperate Hours (1955); Universal left it standing after filming, altering its appearance for All That Heaven Allows (1955). Four years later, it was altered again, for use as the house of the Cleaver family in TV's Leave It to Beaver (1957), beginning with the show's move from CBS to ABC for the 1959 season. The house continued as the Cleaver house until the end of the series in 1963, but was known at Universal as the "Paramount House," not the "Cleaver House."
The house Jane Wyman's character lives in (on Universal's "Colonial Street" back lot) was built on rented Universal property by Paramount Pictures for The Desperate Hours (1955); Universal left it standing after filming, altering its appearance for All That Heaven Allows (1955). Four years later, it was altered again, for use as the house of the Cleaver family in TV's Leave It to Beaver (1957), beginning with the show's move from CBS to ABC for the 1959 season. The house continued as the Cleaver house until the end of the series in 1963, but was known at Universal as the "Paramount House," not the "Cleaver House."
All That Heaven Allows (1955) seems to borrow its title from the last line of the poem 'love and life' by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester: "All my past Life is mine no more, The flying Hours are gone: Like Transitory Dreams giv'n o'er, Whose Images are kept in store By Memory alone. The Time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine The present Moment's all my Lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of Inconstancy, False Hearts, and broken Vows; If I, by Miracle, can be This live-long Minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows."