ADAM AND EVALYN

Two Cities Films, 1949.  Directed by Harold French.  Camera:  Guy Green.  With Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Edwin Styles, Raymond Young, Helen Cherry, Beatrice Varley, Joan Swinstead, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Fred Johnson, Geoffrey Denton, Peter Reynolds, Brenda Hogan, John Forrest, Patrick Baring, Patrick Barr, Betty Blackler, Dora Bryan, Larry Dann, Francis De Wolff.

Evelyne is an orphan who is suddenly found and taken away for a better life with the man she believes to be her father, handsome professional gambler Adam.  It is all a mix-up, of course, and unrefined "Orphan Annie" Evelyne finds out the truth about her parentage (yet not about Adam's source of income) in due time.  She stays with a generous (and guilty) Adam as his ward, maturing (with the aid of an expensive boarding school) into an attractive and accomplished young woman.  Complications ensue when Adam and Evelyne start developing feelings for each other that are definitely not of the father-daughter type.