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The Gift of Love (1958)

The Gift of Love poster
Directed by
Jean Negulesco
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman with a serious illness prepares her husband for life without her. She secretly arranges for a young girl to bring companionship into his life after she is gone.

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What happens

The Gift of Love is a 1958 American CinemaScope drama romance film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. The film's screenplay was based on the short story "The Little Horse" by Nelia Gardner White, originally published in a 1944 issue of Good Housekeeping, and previously made into the film Sentimental Journey (1946), with John Payne and Maureen O'Hara. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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