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Portrait of Clare is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort with Margaret Johnston
Portrait of Clare (1950)
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Add to a movie listPortrait of Clare is a 1950 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey and Ronald Howard.
Synopsis
As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.Actors
Margaret Johnston
(Clare Hingston)
Richard Todd
(Robert Hart)
Robin Bailey
(Dudley Wilburn)
Ronald Howard
(Ralph Hingston)
Jeremy Spenser
(Steven Hingston)
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