When the Bough Breaks (1947 film)

When the Bough Breaks is a 1947 film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Patricia Roc and Rosamund John.It is an adaptation of an original storyline by Herbert Victor on adoption and the competing ties of one child's birth and foster family.Frances Norman (Rosamund John), a middle-class married woman who works at the day nursery to be around children after losing her own baby, is drawn to Jimmy.A legal battle ensues, and the court awards custody of Jimmy to Lily due to the lack of any formal adoption agreement.Jimmy goes to live with Lily and Bill, but has trouble adjusting to life in a working-class household, and runs away in an attempt to return to the Normans, whom he considers his true "mummy and daddy".
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