Vic Damone The Gift of Love (1957; муз. : Sammy Fain ст. : Paul Francis Webster)

The Gift Of Love is a 1958 film which starred Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. The film was a remake of Sentimental Journey (1946) with Lauren Bacall as the devoted, dying wife, who adopts a little girl (Evelyn Rudie) so that her husband (Robert Stack) will have someone to love him in the future. When the wife dies, the husband finds it difficult to stand the child, who is a fantasist by nature, while he is a physicist by trade. He returns her to the orphanage, but later, sensing she is in trouble, rescues her from a fall into the ocean. He then realizes he wants the child with him, and that she in fact is his wife s gift of love.