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The Gift of Love is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jean Negulesco released in USA on 11 february 1958 with Lauren Bacall
The Gift of Love (1958)
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Add to a movie listThe Gift of Love is a 1958 De Luxe in CinemaScope 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 magazine, and previously made into the film Sentimental Journey (1946), with John Payne and Maureen O'Hara.
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A brilliant scientist, Bill Beck (Robert Stack), ends up happily married to Julie (Lauren Bacall), his doctor's receptionist. Five years after their wedding, the same doctor treats Julie for a heart condition that she decides to keep secret from her husband, who is doing serious work as a physicist developing guided missiles.Actors
Lauren Bacall
(Julie Beck)
Robert Stack
(William 'Bill' Beck)
Lorne Greene
(Grant Allan)
Anne Seymour
(Miss McMasters)
Edward Platt
(Dr. Jim Miller)
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