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The Heiress
The Heiress
drama, melodrama
1949
USA
William Wyler
115 min.
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Betty Linly, Ray Collins, Mona Freeman, Selena Royle, Paul Liza
The film takes place in the 1840s in New York. Katherine lives with his father, Dr. Styoper. Her mother died a few years before, and Dr. Slopper constantly compares her daughter with her, not in favor of the first. Katherine meets Maurice Toount, a beautiful, but windy young man, and after a while he makes her an offer. Dr. Slopper is sure that he wants to marry her because of the inheritance and opposes their marriage.