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Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Studio: Sony/ Columbia/ TriStar

Rating: G

Length: 81 minutes

Available Format: 16mm, DVD

Early 1905, French governess Emilie Gallatin (Ingrid Bergman) is hired to care of a luxurious family mansion and the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Molly Stoddard (Fay Wray). Things couldn’t be more perfect, until in 1907, first Molly dies, and then the stock market crashes, wiping out the Soddard’s fortune. Emilie is forced to go back home to France. The parting is difficult, for the teenager boys – Jack Stoddard (Billy Ray), David Stoddard (Steven Muller), Chris Stoddard (Wallace Chadwell), and Phillip Stoddard (Bobby Walberg) – had grown to depend on Emilie more after the loss of their mother, and Emilie had fallen in love with Adam. Seven years later, just before the beginning of World War I, the family’s fortunes have improved, and Adam insists with Emilie to return and stay on as part of the family – preserving her from the foreseeable fates of war.