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The Heiress is a 1949 American romantic drama film directed and produced by William Wyler, from a screenplay written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 stage play of the same title, which was itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square.
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.
The Heiress began as Washington Square, a Henry James novel based on a true story told him by actress Fanny Kemble Cooper about her brother's ill-fated attempt to marry a rich woman. The novel was already considered an American classic when the husband and wife writing team of Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted it to the stage.
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A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
Catherine (Olivia de Havilland), a young woman who stands to inherit her father's large fortune, falls in love when she meets Morris (Montgomery...
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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.
Jun 3, 2019 · The Heiress 1949 A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. Director: William Wyler Writers: Ruth Goetz (written for the...
In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the 'heiress' was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland).
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