Overview

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

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Cast

Helena Bonham Carter

Linus Roache

Alison Elliott

Elizabeth McGovern

Charlotte Rampling

Alex Jennings

Michael Gambon

Ben Miles

Philip Wright

Diana Kent