| Love Comes Softly | |
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| Written by | Cindy Kelly Michael Landon Jr. Janette Oke |
| Directed by | Michael Landon Jr. |
| Starring | Katherine Heigl Dale Midkiff Skye McCole Bartusiak Corbin Bernsen Theresa Russell Oliver Macready |
| Theme music composer | William Ashford Ken Thorne |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Kevin Bocarde Kyle Clark |
| Editor | Colleen Halsey |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Original release | |
| Network | Hallmark Channel |
| Release | April 13, 2003 |
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Love Comes Softly is a 2003 made-for-television Christian drama film set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel on April 13, 2003. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr.. It stars Katherine Heigl as a young woman named Marty Claridge and Dale Midkiff as a widower named Clark Davis.
It is the first in a series of television movies made for Hallmark Channel based on the books and produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions. The order of the films are the 8 originals followed by the 3 prequels [1] [2] [3] [4]:
- Love Comes Softly (2003)
- Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
- Love's Long Journey (2005)
- Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
- Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
- Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
- Love Takes Wing (2009)
- Love Finds a Home (2009)
- Love Begins (2011)
- Love's Everlasting Courage (2011)
- Love's Christmas Journey (2011)
- ^ Love Finds a Home IMDb page
- ^ Hallmark Channel Press Release 2/9/2009 Archived February 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Love Comes Softly". Hallmark Drama. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "The Love Comes Softly Saga". Hallmark Family. Retrieved October 10, 2024.