Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven (1922), a play by Austin Strong. [ Booth Theatre, 704 perf.] Diane (Helen Menken) is saved from her brutal sister Nana (Marian Kerby), who would force her into prostitution, by the sympathetic sewer cleaner Chico (George Gaul). He takes her to his shabby seventh‐floor walk‐up (his seventh heaven), where the two quickly fall in love. When war breaks out and Chico is called into the army, they pledge their loyalty. Diane goes to work in a munitions factory and when the war ends, she is led to believe that Chico has been killed, so she takes up with another man, Brissac (Frank Morgan). Chico returns, but since he has been blinded, he does not see Brissac. The lovers are reunited, and Diane can only agree with Chico's assessment of himself—that he is “a most remarkable fellow.” Many critics felt this highly sentimental drama was immeasurably strengthened by Menken's performance, but the John Golden show toured successfully for several seasons without her. A musical version failed on Broadway in 1955. Austin STRONG (1881–1952) was born in San Francisco but was raised in Samoa (his step‐grandfather was Robert Louis Stevenson). Nearly a dozen of his plays reached Broadway, most notably A Good Little Devil (1913) and Three Wise Fools (1918).

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Contents 1 Film, television, or theatre 2 Music 3 Literature 4 Other

Seventh Heaven or 7th Heaven may refer to:

• The highest of Seven Heavens according to some religious traditions

Film, television, or theatre

• Seventh Heaven (film), a 1927 silent film with Janet Gaynor
• Seventh Heaven (1937 film), a remake with James Stewart
• Seventh Heaven (1993 film), a Dutch romantic comedy
• Seventh Heaven, a Broadway musical by Victor Young
• 7th Heaven, an American television series
• 7th Heaven (documentary) (7. himmel), a Norwegian film about Tatjana Lars Kristian Guldbrandsen, with music by John Erik Kaada

Music

• Seventh Heaven (musician), a British music producer
• Seventh Heaven (Buck-Tick album)
• "Seventh Heaven" (song), a song by L'Arc-en-Ciel
• Seventh Heaven, an album by T.M.Revolution
• Seventh Heaven, an album by Kalafina
• "Seventh Heaven", a song by Deep Purple from Abandon
• 7th Heaven (band), an American rock band
• "7th Heaven" (Vanity song), a song by Vanity

Literature

• Seventh Heaven (book), a poetry collection by Patti Smith, and the title poem
• Seventh Heaven, a novel by Alice Hoffman
• 7th Heaven (novel), a novel in the Women's Murder Club Series by James Patterson

Other

• Seventh Heaven, a sports team winning game seven in a best-of-seven playoff series
• Seventh Heaven, a part of the Whistler-Blackcomb Resort
• Seventh Heaven, the revolving restaurant in the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia
• 7th Heaven (frequent flyer program), the Air Jamaica frequent–flyer program
• 7th Heaven, a fictional bar owned by Tifa Lockhart in the role-playing game Final Fantasy VII

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