‘The Heiress,’ a quasi-tragic, 1840s New York love story
The Heiress Directed by William Wyler Written by Augustus and Ruth Goetz Starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, and Ralph Richardson USA, 115 min – 1949. William Wyler’s The Heiress tells the quasi-tragic story of Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland), a plain-jane, Gilded Age heiress, who’s naiveté leads her into a courtship, with fortune-hunter, Morris …