Can anyone name this movie?

Question

It's kind of old. 50's or 60's maybe. Black & White. A girl is sick and possibly dying. She lies in bed and out the window is a vine growing up the wall, with leaves on it. She quits trying to fight her illness and decides that when the last leaf on the vine falls she will die. As it starts getting closer to winter, the leaves begin to fall. There is also an older man who is a painter and at the end of the movie we find out that he went out and painted the last leaf on the wall. So, it would never fall, thus ending up saving the girls life. He ends up dying of exposure from being outside painting the leaf on the wall. You find out right at the end of the movie that the leaf is painted on. I watched this movie back when I was in the 8th grade. The lit teacher played it. Maybe it was based on a book. I don't know. Please help me out. Thanks!

Answer 1

The Last Leaf
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