Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter. In the mid-1800's, the wealthy Sloper family - widowed surgeon Dr. Austin Sloper, his adult daughter Catherine Sloper (Dr. Sloper's only surviving child), and Dr. Sloper's recently widowed sister Lavinia Penniman - live in an ...

  2. Aug 8, 2021 · This week, we discuss the 1949 Oscar-winning drama THE HEIRESS, starring two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland and directed by three-time Oscar-winning f...

    • 124 min
    • 24.7K
    • Filmgazm Productions
  3. Synopsis. Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

    • 115 min
  4. The Heiress (1949), as the theatrical poster declared, is "a truly great motion picture" - a bleak tale of crushed, heartbroken expectations and incisively-harsh retribution. The top-line, prestige production was directed by William Wyler, a master of romantic period dramas, who had already brought bona-fide classics of literature and the stage ...

  5. Synopsis. A truly great motion picture. Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster’s heart and substantial inheritance. Remove Ads. Cast ...

  6. 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...

    • 3 min
    • 77.6K
    • Trailer Chan
  7. May 7, 2019 · The Heiress: A Cruel Inheritance. “T he emotion and conflict between two people in a drawing room can be as exciting as a gun battle, and possibly more exciting,” wrote William Wyler on the release of his film The Heiress in 1949. This tenet is fully borne out in the film, with its bouts of genteel but bruising domestic warfare staged ...