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Home of the American heiress until her death in 1979, this unfinished 18th-century palace provides a delightful canal-side setting for what is widely considered one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of modern art.
John is Virginia hunt country and the former husband of both a Mellon heiress and Elizabeth Taylor.
In 1996, the Enquirer hired two private investigators to stake out the home of a Little Rock heiress rumored to be having an affair with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
Holland has expunged much of the melodrama that marked the war-horse dramatization The Heiress (made into a 1949 film with Olivia de Havilland, directed by William Wyler), and has even corrected a problem that irked James, years after publication, when he reread his early novel and declined to revise it for reprinting: that Morris Townsend, Catherine's fortune-hunting suitor, was too much of a one-dimensional lout.
As Catherine, James' plain, artless heiress to whom life has simultaneously dealt a very good and a very bad hand, Leigh is so busy projecting her plainness and artlessness that she neglects, for most of the film, to pull the audience in.