Morris lavishes the shy wallflower with focused attention, causing Catherine to blossom and soon fall madly in love with Morris. Under her aunt's guidance, the awkward Catherine begins to venture out socially and meets the excessively handsome and charming Morris Townsend at a ball. Catherine's gregarious Aunt Lavinia Penniman moves into the household after becoming widowed and attempts to prod Catherine into being more social and find a husband, since her father won't see to it. Catherine, as her father painfully and constantly reminds her, has limited talent and cannot "hold a candle" to her deceased mother, a famously charming and gorgeous socialite who died giving birth to the disappointing Catharine.
Austin Sloper, makes his open disparagement of his bashful daughter plain. Her father, the dismissively negligent Dr. Catherine is a plain, sweet, and shy young woman, who is fond of needlepoint and awkward in social settings. In New York City, sometime in the 1850s, lives our titular heiress, Catherine Sloper. Universal Pictures, through its EMKA division, currently handles distribution of the film. In 1996, The Heiress was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film received a leading eight nominations at the 22nd Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture, and won four awards (more than any other film nominated that year) Best Actress (for de Havilland), Best Original Score, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design. Although a box office failure, grossing $2.3 million on a $2.6 million budget, the film garnered critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Wyler's direction, its screenplay and the performances of the cast.
The Heiress premiered in Los Angeles on Octoand was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on December 28, 1949. Montgomery Clift stars as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richardson as Dr. The film stars Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, a naive young woman who falls in love with a handsome young man despite the objections of her emotionally abusive father who suspects the man of being a fortune hunter. The Heiress is a 1949 American romantic drama film directed and produced by William Wyler, from a screenplay written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 stage play of the same title, which was itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square.
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