Ruth Goetz

Catherine seeks love in the form of a suitor named Morris. However, her father quickly quashes this romance, citing that Morris simply wants to leach from Catherine's soon-to-be inheritance. As Catherine is slowly consumed by her father's possessiveness, she must decide between material security and the risks that come with love.

"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, emotionally 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...