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Take a Chance on Love Again (Scene from "Two Loves")

 In this scene from the 1961 New Zealand Art movie "Two Loves", Paul (played by Lawrence Harvey) is a young soldier suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who is teaching in an Elementary School in the Maori village of Manarua ... where Anna (played by Shirley MacLaine) is a spinster from Pennsylvania sent away by her father to avoid the pitfalls of a stalemated love affair with a penniless student, Eugene. Anna has become a passionately committed Teacher but is reluctant to take a chance on love again with Paul.

Paul beseeches her:
"Oh Madam ... you could be that woman ... your friend Balzac said there is nothing more beautiful than the first love of a man with the last love of a woman!!"
 
Two Loves is a 1961 New Zealand Art Film directed by Charles Walters. It is based on the book Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.    "

A scene from "Two Loves" Shirley MacLaine Movie
In this scene from the 1961 Shirley MacLaine movie "Two Loves", the famed actress plays the role of the very pragmatic and practical Miss Anna Vorontsov: a young American woman who is sent away by her family from Pennsylvania to avoid the potentially ruinous pitfalls of a troubled and stalemated love affair ... she arrives in New Zealand to her aunt and becomes an Elementary School Teacher in a Maori village ... this scene shows Anna telling the children a Maori folk tale and the arrival of the school inspector.
Anna exclaims to the school inspector:
"My children come from a Maori village and I want to bridge the gap between their parents and these four walls of a box with a leaky roof called a Western Education!"

Two Loves is a 1961 New Zealand Art Film directed by Charles Walters. It is based on the book Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.