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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 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.
Brief Synopsis. A plain young woman's money makes her prey to fortune hunters. Cast & Crew. Read More. William Wyler. Director. Olivia De Havilland. Catherine Sloper. Montgomery Clift. Morris Townsend. Ralph Richardson. Dr. Austin Sloper. Miriam Hopkins. Lavinia Penniman. Vanessa Brown. Maria. Photos & Videos. View All. 1 Photo. Film Details.
685 subscribers. Subscribed. 81. 23K views 2 years ago. This week, we discuss the 1949 Oscar-winning drama THE HEIRESS, starring two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland and directed by three...
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 Clift), who gives her the love and affection her...
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The Heiress. Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to ...