Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Gene TierneyMiranda Wells
- Walter HustonEphraim Wells
- Vincent PriceNicholas Van Ryn
- Glenn LanganDr. Jeff Turner
- Anne RevereAbigail Wells
- Spring ByingtonMagda
- Connie MarshallKatrine Van Ryn
- Harry MorganKlaas Bleecker
- Vivienne OsborneJohanna Van Ryn
- Jessica TandyPeggy O'Malley
Crew
- Joseph L. MankiewiczDirector
- Joseph L. MankiewiczWriter
- Anya SetonNovel
- Arthur C. MillerDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Dorothy SpencerEditor
- Ernst LubitschProducer
- Darryl F. ZanuckProducer
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