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A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
Rated: 4/4 • May 11, 2019. 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 ...
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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.
Mar 18, 2024 · Set in New York City before the Civil War, The Heiress features Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, the plain-Jane daughter of a tyrannical rich man (played by Ralph Richardson) who dominates her life and subjects her to constant comparison to her vibrant mother, who died when Catherine was young.
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 1949A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.Director: William WylerWri...
May 7, 2019 · The Heiress. Blu-ray edition reviewed by Chris Galloway. May 07 2019. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. 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.