Heiress, The (1949) - (Movie Clip) Opening, A Hundred Years Ago

Heiress, The - (Original Trailer)

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

Heiress, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Such Airs and Graces!

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.

Heiress, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Believe She Has A Waltz

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.

Heiress, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Joys of Love

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.