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Jan 4, 2024 · The Heiress has it all—murder, secrets, Gothic vibes, and one of the most deliciously twisted families ever put to page. I loved it!" I loved it!" —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left "Featuring unreliable narrators and twists throughout, Hawkins' latest continues her reign as the queen of slow-burn domestic ...
- Rachel Hawkins
Film Synopsis. I n the 1840s, Dr Austin Sloper, a successful medical practitioner, lives with his daughter Catherine in New York's affluent Washington Square. In her early twenties, Catherine is a disappointment to her father, lacking the beauty, intelligence and social graces of his deceased wife.
Aug 8, 2021 · This week, we discuss the 1949 Oscar-winning drama THE HEIRESS, starring two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland and directed by three-time Oscar-winning f...
- 124 min
- 24.3K
- Filmgazm Productions
A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter. In the mid-1800's, the wealthy Sloper family - widowed surgeon Dr. Austin Sloper, his adult daughter Catherine Sloper (Dr. Sloper's only surviving child), and Dr. Sloper's recently widowed sister Lavinia Penniman - live in an ...
The Heiress. Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress (1949). The Heiress, American dramatic film, released in 1949, that was adapted from the play of the same name by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz. Both the play and the film were based on the Henry James novel Washington Square (1881). Set in New York City before the Civil War ...
The Heiress is an extremely complex movie. I have heard the transition made by Catherine, played by Olivia DeHavilland, described in these reviews as (1) her turning into a bitter woman, (2) a wise woman, (3) a woman more in control of her life, (4) a suspicious woman, etc.
- DVD
Synopsis. Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
- 115 min
