MGM+ has greenlit the romantic comedy series “The American Heiress” with Julianna Margulies set for a lead role, Variety has learned.
\n\nThe series is based on the novel of the same name by Daisy Goodwin (“Victoria”), which is also published under the title “My Last Duchess.”
\n\n“’The American Heiress’ is a story about mothers and daughters, old society obligation and new world entitlement, and the search for meaning in a world distorted by money,” Goodwin said. “I hope it will make viewers laugh, think, and swoon. I am a history nerd, but I am also a fan of the Hollywood golden age—think Consuelo Vanderbilt meets Rebecca! I am beyond excited to be working with Julianna Margulies who embodies the majesty and frustration of Isabella Cash.”
\n\nThe official description of the series states:
\n\n“In 1893, beautiful and vivacious Cora Cash is a ‘dollar princess’ reluctantly brought to England by her mother the formidable Mrs. Cash (Margulies) in search of the ‘one thing she can’t buy at home, a title.’ Cora thinks she is in love with Teddy, an American artist, but when she falls off her horse in a hunting accident and wakes up in Lulworth Castle, the seat of the…
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