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How Do I Love Thee? is a 1970 American comedydrama film directed by Michael Gordon. It stars Jackie Gleason and Maureen OHara and is based on Peter De Vriess 1965 novel Let Me Count the Ways.

Stanley is a furniture mover, happily married to Elsie but tempted by Lena, an artist. No actual affair takes place, but Lena does give him a poem as a parting gift that Stanley later enters in a contest. He wins a 10,000 prize and donates the money to Toms department at the university. Tom is rewarded with a promotion over his rival, Littlefield.Trouble develops when the original poem is exposed as being one of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings sonnets. Littlefield gets the job and Toms reputation is sullied. Stanley prays for divine intervention and Littlefield promptly dies. Stanley flies to Lourdes to atone and pray for forgiveness, but is relieved when Tom informs him that Littlefields death occurred before his request for help from above. ........

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