The Morning Movie Matinee is a new adult offering at the Flemington Free Public Library.
All Are Welcome to the Showing of Our First Movie
Thursday, March 21st at 10:00 a.m., the 1949 Academy Award Winning Movie: The Heiress
Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of romance. Are his smoldering professions of love sincere, as she believes they are? Or is Catherine’s calculating father (Ralph Richardson) correct in judging Morris a venal fortune seeker? A graceful drawing-room drama boasting Academy Award–winning costume design by Edith Head, The Heiress is also a piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, in a triumph of classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
https://www.criterion.com/films/28986-the-heiress
The book, Washington Square by Henry James, is available online at gutenberg.org to read.
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