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The Heiress
Catherine Sloper, a shy, plain and boring young woman, falls for a poor but handsome and well-bred man, Morris Townsend who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
9 June 1926, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
14 January 1923, Pratt, Kansas, USA
July 14, 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 March 1928, Vienna, Austria
August 5, 1891 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA
25 April 1913, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
8 May 1893, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 December 1889, Sacramento, California, USA
27 August 1884, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 4, 1902 in Hericy, France
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
May 21, 1899 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
6 November 1904, New York City, New York, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 February 1889, Cumberland, England, UK
April 1, 1894 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
March 21, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA
1890, Malmesbury, England, UK
19 December 1902, Tivoli Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
1 July 1916, Tokyo, Japan
July 10, 2007
The reputation of this exceedingly fine film has continued to grow as the decades have rolled on, and the performances of a strong cast certainly deserve much of that credit.September 26, 2011
More interesting for the things it leaves unsaid than the occasionally staid melodramatic story.February 20, 2010
Though it had a poor box office upon its release, it eventually became recognized as a masterpiece.August 15, 2012
[A]n outstanding literary adaptation and a superb example of Hollywood fare at its most intelligent and sharply honed.February 25, 2008
Wyler's superlative rendition of Henry James' novel Washington Square is meticulously mounted with great acting from Olivia De Havilland, Monty Clift, and particularly Ralph Richardson, dark-noirish lensing, and powerful score from Aaron Copeland.