The Gift of Love

The Gift of Love
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Produced by Charles Brackett
Written by Luther Davis
Based on The Little Horse
1944 Good Housekeeping 
by Nelia Gardner White
Starring Lauren Bacall
Robert Stack
Evelyn Rudie
Music by Cyril J. Mockridge
Alfred Newman
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Edited by Hugh S. Fowler
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox
Release dates
 February 11, 1958
Running time
 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,215,000[1]

The Gift of Love is a 1958 De Luxe in CinemaScope film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack.[2]

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.[3]

Plot

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.

Not wishing him to be left alone if she dies, Julie suggests they adopt a child. An orphan called Hitty (Evelyn Rudie) has been rejected many times, but Julie takes a shine to her. Bill, a pragmatist, doesn't understand the little girl's fantasy world. And he is angered when Hitty, meaning well, erases a chalkboard, wiping out hours of Bill's hard work.

Bill's superior at work, Grant Allan (Lorne Greene), urges him to give the girl more patience and time, but the Becks believe it could be best that Hitty be returned to the orphanage. Julie's heart gives out. After her death, Hitty tries to win over her heartbroken foster father, but Bill is inconsolable.

Hitty is returned to the orphanage. She goes missing one night and is caught in a storm. Bill and Grant hurry there to assist in a search, and when they find Hitty and save her, Bill realizes he never wants to be apart from her again.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p251
  2. ↑ http://allmovie.com/work/the-gift-of-love-92966
  3. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76257/The-Gift-of-Love/articles.html

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