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Plot. In 1849 New York City, Catherine Sloper, a plain and shy young woman, lives with her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in the prestigious Washington Square. Catherine's mother, who was charming and talented, died early, and quiet Catherine constantly disappoints her father with her lack of social graces.
The Heiress: Directed by William Wyler. With Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins. A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
Synopsis. In the mid-1800's, in New York's Washington Square, wealthy widowed physician Austin Sloper bemoans the fact that although his daughter Catherine has had superior schooling and training, she lacks the refined qualities of her beautiful mother, and is "an entirely mediocre creature." Austin consequently asks his sister, widow Lavinia ...
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 ...
A graceful drawing-room drama boasting Academy Award–winning costume design by Edith Head, The Heiress is also a piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, in a triumph of classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced. Film Info. United States. 1949. 115 minutes. Black & White. 1.37:1. English
The Heiress. Catherine (Olivia de Havilland), a young woman who stands to inherit her father's large fortune, falls in love when she meets Morris (Montgomery Clift), who gives her the love and ...
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One of William Wyler's masterpieces, and quite possibly the finest screen adaptation of Henry James' work ever. TheLittleSongbird 1 August 2015. Rewatching The Heiress after remembering nothing but great things about it, the film was every bit as brilliant as remembered and even better in fact.
The Heiress is a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square. Two years later, the play was adapted into the film The Heiress starring Olivia de Havilland .
Jun 3, 2019 · The Heiress 1949A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.Director: William WylerWri...
The Heiress (1949), as the theatrical poster declared, is "a truly great motion picture" - a bleak tale of crushed, heartbroken expectations and incisively-harsh retribution. The top-line, prestige production was directed by William Wyler, a master of romantic period dramas, who had already brought bona-fide classics of literature and the stage ...
