Archives for November 24, 2017

The original theatrical trailer for The Heiress, William Wyler’s 1949 screen version of the 1947 stage adaptation by Ruth and Augustus Goetz of Henry James’ Washington Square, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, and Ralph Richardson:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Then the mixture was to be stirred to the tune of perpetual motion and served, under pain of being rejected with disgust, with the time-honoured bread-sauce of the happy ending.”

Henry James, preface to Theatricals: Second Series