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My Own True Love is a american film of genre Drama directed by Compton Bennett released in USA on 2 february 1949 with Phyllis Calvert
My Own True Love (1948)
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Add to a movie listMy Own True Love is a 1949 American drama film directed by Compton Bennett and written by Arthur Kober, Josef Mischel and Theodore Strauss. The film stars Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Walker, Philip Friend, Binnie Barnes and Alan Napier. The film was released on February 2, 1949, by Paramount Pictures.
Actors
Phyllis Calvert
(Joan Clews)
Melvyn Douglas
(Clive Heath)
Wanda Hendrix
(Sheila Heath)
Robert Walker
(Charles Stone)
Philip Friend
(Michael Heath)
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