Dragonwyck (film)

Dragonwyck is a 1946 American period drama film made by Twentieth CenturyFox. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch uncredited from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the novel Dragonwyck by Anya Seton. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Arthur C. Miller.

The setting for the story is a farm in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1844. Farmers daughter Miranda Wells Gene Tierney is brought up by her straitlaced low church parents, Ephraim Walter Huston and Abigail Anne Revere. Miranda, a budding young woman, lives on the farm with her family, but often escapes everyday life on the farm through daydreams of a more romantic location and lifestyle, filled with luxury and flair.When Mirandas mother Abigail receives a letter from a distant cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn Vincent Price, Miranda is thrilled by the news. The autocratic, charming and atheistic Nicholas is the owner of Dragonwyck Manor, an exclusive estate with extensive lands and a luxurious mansion. The estate is quite the envy of his fellow Hudson River landholders. In the letter, Nicholas asks if one of Abigails daughters could come and serve as governess for his eightyearold girl Katrine Connie Marshall. Abigail tells Miranda that Nicholas is descended from the original Dutch patroons, yet Abigail is dubious, and the devoutly religious Ephraim is opposed. ........

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