The Heiress written by Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz and Henry James, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson – this excellent feature won four Academy Awards in 1950, including for Olivia de Havilland for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the motion picture is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, if you like the following, I have more than five thousand more notes on films from the aforementioned and other pages, plus more than four thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you even subscribe

 

The Heiress written by Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz and Henry James, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson – this excellent feature won four Academy Awards in 1950, including for Olivia de Havilland for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the motion picture is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, if you like the following, I have more than five thousand more notes on films from the aforementioned and other pages, plus more than four thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you even subscribe

 

 

9 out of 10

 

The Heiress is an excellent motion picture, it was nominated for more Oscars than the four it won, including for Best Film, Best Director, and Olivia de Haviland was crowned the Best Actress in a Leading role, that of The Heiress…she was known to me from Gone With The Wind https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/gone-with-wind-by-sidney-howard-based.html where she had a supporting role, that of Melanie

 

Catherine Sloper is The Heiress, ergo this is the memorable part in which Olivia de Haviland shines, she will have thirty thousand per year income, and that is many millions in the currency of our time, albeit there might be a trillionaire soon, the crazy Musk, so having a few millions might seem less than impressive for some

A survey showed that being rich is equaled with having more than 2.5 million by ordinary people, when asked – incidentally, people are more interested, aggrieved by what others have, and then there is research showing what happens when one wins more than one million at the lottery, we experience Hedonic Adaptation

 

You have much more on this in the psychology classic Stumbling on Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html written by the Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert, we think we would be happy, if only we moved to California, an island…

Alas, once those dreamed scenarios come to life, we get used with the good in those paradisical places and see what is wrong there: wild fires, hurricanes, high cost of electricity and almost anything else, the upside of this phenomenon is that we also adapt to bad situations, except loss of dear ones, unemployment, these are harder…

 

Back to The Heiress, Ralph Richardson plays doctor Austin Sloper, and he was nominated for the Oscar as well, this is the father of Catherine Sloper, a widower who keeps comparing his daughter to the late wife, disparaging the girl, and regretting the apparently intelligent, beautiful, impetuous, formidable, wonderful spouse…

Montgomery Clift was a fantastic thespian, if you are a cinephile, you should read Adventures in The Screen Trade https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman, this where we have passages on Clift, who passed on three offers and thus we have had:

 

The rise of Paul Newman – Somebody Up There Loves Me – Marlon Brando – On The Waterfront – and James Dean – Rebel Without a Cause – Burt Lancaster was another fantastic actor, powerful, sublime and he said that ‘he felt his knees buckle when he played with Montgomery Clift’, well, something like that, it is not an exact quote

Clift is Morris Townsend in this feature, and he is poor, so the suspicion is that he pretends to be in love with The Heiress, only to get to her fortune, her father is sure of that, and events appear to support this theory, although we could not be 100% sure, I would say, this is what makes this motion picture so wondrous…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html  

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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