The Portrait of a Lady

Isabel Archer, a vivacious New World ingénue who leaves America for Old World Europe, is keen to experience all that life has to offer.A young woman with charm and an innate intellectual curiosity, Isabel rejects a series of marriage proposals, but when she inherits an unexpected fortune that promises to grant her freedom, she falls prey to two American ex-pat schemers: the elegant Madame Merle and the charming but calculating Gilbert Osmond.