Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "The Heiress" ya fara ne a Los Angeles a ranar 6 ga Oktoba, 1949 kuma Paramount Pictures ta sake shi a gidan wasan kwaikwayo a ranar 28 ga Disamba, 1949. Kodayake rashin nasarar akwatin gidan, ya sami dala miliyan 2.3 a kan kasafin dala miliyan 2.6, fim ɗin ya sami yabo mai yawa, tare da masu bita suna yabon jagorancin Wyler, rubutun sa da wasan kwaikwayon 'yan wasan. Fim din ya sami gabatarwa takwas a lambar yabo ta 22 ta Academy Awards
, gami da Mafi Kyawun Hotuna, kuma ya sami kyaututtuka huɗu (fiye da kowane fim da aka zaɓa a wannan shekarar); Mafi kyawun 'Yar wasan kwaikwayo (don de Havilland), Mafi kyawun Score na Asali, Mafi kyawun Tsarin Zane, da Mafi kyawun Tsarin Kaya. A shekara ta 1996, an zaɓi "The Heiress" don adanawa a cikin United States National Film Registry ta Library of Congress a matsayin "al'adu, tarihi, ko kuma muhimmiyar mahimmanci".