Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, and David Niven, and based on the 1847 n
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Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon
Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff, 1939
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning familie
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
…drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, and David Niven, and based on the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only 16 of the novel's 34 chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters. The novel was adapted for the…
Title page of the first edition, 1847
The climb to ruined farmhouse Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights
High Sunderland Hall in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building.
Diana Vernon from Walter Scott's Rob Roy, painted by John Everett Millais (1880)