Children of Love

{{short description|1953 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Children of Love | image =File:Children of Love.jpg | caption = | director = Léonide Moguy | producer = Ayres d'Aguiar | writer = Léonide Moguy <br> Marise Querlin | narrator = | starring = Etchika Choureau <br> Joëlle Bernard <br> Lise Bourdin | music = Joseph Kosma | cinematography = Robert Juillard | editing = Louisette Hautecoeur | studio =Gray-Film | distributor = Cocinor | released = {{Film date|1953|11|10|df=yes}} | runtime = 95 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = | gross = $27.1 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=13297|title = Les Enfants de l\'amour (1953) - JPBox-Office}}</ref> }} '''''Children of Love''''' (French: '''''Les enfants de l'amour''''') is a 1953 French drama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring Etchika Choureau, Joëlle Bernard and Lise Bourdin.<ref>Oscherwitz & Higgins p.130</ref><ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|1305825187}} |title=ENFANTS DE L'AMOUR, Les (Children of Love) |journal=Monthly Film Bulletin |location=London |volume=21 |issue=240 |date=1 January 1954 |page=115 }}</ref> The film's sets were designed by the art director Rino Mondellini.

==Synopsis== In a maternity hospital, the social worker Hélène Lambert and Doctor Baurain attempt to help a group of new, single mothers cope with the dilemmas of raising their children or giving them up for adoption.

==Cast== * Etchika Choureau as Anne-Marie et Geneviève * Joëlle Bernard as Dolly * Lise Bourdin as Hélène Lambert * Jean-Claude Pascal as Doctor Baurain * Jean-Max as President Martichou * Maryse Martin as Madeleine * Dominique Page as Liliane * Jean-Pierre Jaubert as Roger Dubois * Mylène Demongeot as Nicole * Nadine Tallier as Lulu * Janine Darcey as A future mother * Marcelle Arnold as A woman who want to adopt a children * Robert Vattier as Albert * Raymond Cordy as The policier * Paul Azaïs as M. Lefranc * Philippe Hersent as Inspector Gaultier * Georges Galley as Vittorio * Marcel Pérès as M. Landrieu * Héléna Manson as Mlle Lefort * Lucienne Bogaert as La Donnadieu * Germaine Dermoz as Nicole's mother * Valentine Tessier as The director

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== Bibliography == *{{cite book |last1=Oscherwitz |first1=Dayna |last2=Higgins |first2=MaryEllen |chapter=DEMONGEOT, MYLÈNE (1936– ) |pages=129–130 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57aIGJqhWDcC&pg=PA129 |title=The A to Z of French Cinema |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7038-3 }}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0045729}}

Category:1953 films Category:1953 drama films Category:French drama films Category:1953 French-language films Category:Films directed by Léonide Moguy Category:French black-and-white films Category:Films scored by Joseph Kosma Category:1953 French films Category:French-language drama films