The Heiress

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Heiress, 1949.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Heiress, 1949.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Heiress, 1949.

Apart from pretending to bugle (in From Here To Eternity), Montgomery Clift as suitor Morris, in maybe his only musical performance, charming Catherine (Olivia de Havilland, title character), offering an 18th century French love song in 19th century New York, in William Wyler's The Heiress, 1949.

Widowed Aunt Penniman (Miriam Hopkins) with borderline-spinster Catherine (Olivia de Havilland, title character) at an 1840's New York society ball, before she meets the gracious Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) in William Wyler's The Heiress, 1949, from a Henry James novel.

Big names like Henry James, Aaron Copland and William Wyler in the credits leading to an opening scene introducing Dr. Sloper (Ralph Richardson) and sister "Aunt Penniman" (Miriam Hopkins) from The Heiress, 1949, starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift.

Feels like the novel (by Henry James) as Aunt Penniman (Miriam Hopkins) prepares Catherine (Olivia de Havilland, title character) for a dance, preceded by a casual insult from her father (Ralph Richardson) in William Wyler's The Heiress, 1949.

Olivia de Havilland earned her second Academy Award playing The Heiress (1949) whose money attracts fortune hunter Montgomery Clift.