Synopsis
The Heiress (1949) is William Wyler's tightly wound psychological drama adapted from Henry James — watch it online on iFILM. Olivia de Havilland plays Catherine Sloper, the plain, quiet daughter of a wealthy New York physician who has spent years measuring up — and failing — against his late wife.
Everything shifts when Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) wanders into her drawing room. He's charming, penniless, and attentive in a way nobody has ever been with Catherine before. Her father (Ralph Richardson) sees through it instantly: the young man wants the inheritance, not the woman. What follows is a slow war of wills between a father who may be right, a suitor who may be lying, and a woman finally learning what she is actually worth.
De Havilland took home her second Academy Award for the performance. The film claimed four Oscars total. It's a film that gets colder and smarter as it goes — one of classic Hollywood's sharpest portraits of power inside a family. Stream The Heiress (1949) online on iFILM.
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