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

Kate Croy

Linus Roache

Merton Densher

Alison Elliott

Millie Theale

Elizabeth McGovern

Susan Stringham

Charlotte Rampling

Aunt Maude

Alex Jennings

Lord Mark

Michael Gambon

Lionel Croy

Ben Miles

Journalist 1

Philip Wright

Journalist 2

Diana Kent

Merton's Party Companion

Mark Chapman

Royal Bodyguard (uncredited)