
Affairs of the Heart
★ 7 · 1974 · 50m · Drama
Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.
Episodes
▶1. Emma50m · Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.▶2. Flora50m · Flora Saunt is a beautiful but poor orphan whose only asset is her face, which she uses to secure a marriage to the wealthy but unintelligent Lord Iffield, who doesn't realise she is nearly blind and needs thick, disfiguring spectacles.▶3. Grace50m · Mr Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas.▶4. Mary and Louise50m · Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.▶5. Adela50m · Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from remarriage and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste.▶6. Catherine50m · A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.▶7. Bessie50m · Bessie Alden and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she's set on marriage.











