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Adam and Evelyne is a British film of genre Drama directed by Harold French released in USA on 26 december 1949 with Stewart Granger
Adam and Evelyne (1949)
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Add to a movie listAdam and Evelyne, released in the U.S. as Adam and Evalyn, is a 1949 romance film starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. According to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, this suited the stars, as they were romantically involved at the time, despite their age difference. They married the next year.
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When jockey Chris Kirby (Fred Johnson) is fatally injured in a horse race, he gets his best friend, gambler Adam Black (Stewart Granger), to promise to take care of his teenage daughter, Evelyne (Jean Simmons), who has been raised apart from her father. Unbeknownst to Adam, Evelyne had been led to believe that Adam is her father in correspondence between parent and child. Adam is unable to tell her the truth; his butler and friend Bill Murray (Edwin Styles) tries and fails as well. Finally, Adam's sometime girlfriend Moira (Helen Cherry) breaks the news to the girl.Actors
Stewart Granger
(Adam Black)
Jean Simmons
(Evelyne Wallace)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Col. Bradley)
Edwin Styles
(Bill Murray)
Helen Cherry
(Moira Hannen)
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