After seeing the Broadway production of a Ruth and Augustus Goetz play, Olivia de Havilland asked William Wyler to option the rights and direct her in what film adaptation?
Answer The Heiress
The Heiress is the story of a young woman, a devastatingly handsome suitor, and a cruel, suspicious father. Wyler turned Cary Grant down for the male lead in favor of Montgomery Clift, who turned out to be something of a pill and ended up walking out of the premiere. The film was pitched with the tagline, "When a Woman Loves a Man . . . She Doesn't Want to Know the Truth About Him!"
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