The Gift of Love (1958)

Director
Jean Negulesco

Main cast
Lauren Bacall; Robert Stack; Evelyn Rudie; Lorne Greene; Anne Seymour

Genres
Drama, Romance

Description
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.


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