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Lovers and Lollipops is a 1956 film directed and written by Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. The film was photographed on location in and around New York City, and tells the story of the romance of a widowed fashion model and an engineer, and how their relationship is affected by her daughter. The film was the second of three feature films directed and written by Engel and Orkin, who were best known for the 1953 film Little Fugitive. Like that film and Weddings and Babies (1960), Lovers and Lollipops was a low-budget film shot in a naturalistic style uncommon during this era. The film stars Lori March and was the film debut of Gerald S. O'Loughlin. Cathy Dunn, who did not appear in any other movies, played the girl. Both Little Fugitive and Lovers and Lollipops were influential independent movies in that era, and influenced the French New Wave film movement and John Cassavetes.