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...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's highly polished film about a jilted wallflower; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...
...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's highly polished film about a jilted wallflower; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...
...Heiress. The story of a spinster's revenge on her father and lover, sumptuously told by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...
...Heiress. The story of a spinster's revenge on her father and lover, sumptuously told by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
Based on a Broadway misinterpretation of Henry James's Washington Square, the film shows a timid, plain heiress (Olivia de Havilland) courted by a charming idler (Montgomery Clift). Her father (Ralph Richardson), who regards her as a hopelessly unlovable girl, turns her into just that. Using her inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still...