Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Heiress (Paramount) is a handsomely mounted, sumptuously acted film about a wallflower whose only social grace is a neat hand at embroidery. Directed and produced by William Wyler (Wuttiering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives), The Heiress bears the Wyler trademark of painstaking high gloss. It is also a solid and impressive movie aimed at adults...
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...
Divorced. By Mary Ellin Berlin Burden, 22, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin: Socialite Dennis Sheedy Burden, 29; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno...