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Close to My Heart is a american film of genre Drama directed by Don Alvarado released in USA on 1 october 1951 with Gene Tierney
Close to My Heart (1951)
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Add to a movie listClose to My Heart is a 1951 Warner Bros. drama directed by William Keighley, written by James R. Webb (based on his novel A Baby for Midge), and starring Ray Milland and Gene Tierney.
Synopsis
Brad Sheridan (Milland) and Midge Sheridan (Tierney) cannot have children of their own. Midge and Brad decide to adopt and inquire at an adoption agency. Learning of an abandoned child left at the police station, Midge is determined to have the baby as her own, but Brad refuses to go along with Midge's plans until he can find out something about the child's parents, which then makes the boy an adoption risk.Actors
Gene Tierney
(Midge Sheridan)
Ray Milland
(Brad Sheridan)
Fay Bainter
(Mrs. Morrow)
Howard St. John
(E. O. "Frosty" Frost)
Mary Beth Hughes
(Arlene)
James Seay
(Evarts Heilne)
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