One Only Loves Once (French: On n'aime qu'une fois) is a 1950 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Françoise Rosay, Renée Faure and Marcel Herrand.

[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré.

Danièle, a young woman, dreams of marrying her childhood friend Jean Monnier.

His mother wishing to prevent the match sends him away to Paris to study to become a surgeon.

Left alone Danièle is forced to marry the only suitor available, who subsequently takes her money and abandons her.