Need a film buff to name this film

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So it's a very old black and white film. The mother gives up her baby, comes back in disguise as the governess and only on her death bed does she tell her daughter.
What's the film please??

could it be Firelight - not black and white though?

www.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Thanks, It's a very similar plot, but it's def an old black and white. I watched it with my mother as a child in the 70's. It made us both cry like babies at the end.

any idea at all who was in it?

No not a clue

East Lynne? There was a film made in 1931.

www.whatismymovie.com may help

East Lynne sounds spot on, but it's not a silent film. Maybe there's a remake?

It sounds very much like the plot of East Lynne.

Maybe you didn’t have a colour television in the 70s so that’s why it was in black and white?

It's definitely East Lynne, thanks all

Mrs Doubtfire?

Imitation of Life starring Lana Turner?