Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

• Paramount Pictures
• Olivia de Havilland
• Montgomery Clift
• Ralph Richardson
• Miriam Hopkins
• Vanessa Brown
• Mona Freeman
• Ray Collins
• Betty Linley