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Kramer wanted to cast Burt Lancaster because Lancaster had a troubled child of his own (his son Bill had polio that made one of his legs shorter than the other). [4] Ingrid Bergman , Katharine Hepburn , and Elizabeth Taylor were considered for the role of Jean Hansen, which ultimately went to Judy Garland, who previously had worked with ...
The lecture hall is full. The medical director of the institute introduces her. The news broadcast of the committee report is piped in. It is devastating. Furious, the director points to the real results. The lecture continues. At the end, a crowd of children gather outside the Institute, singing “Happy Birthday” to Sister Kenny.
The boy develops polio and the rickshawala feels guilty after a doctor (Sanjeev Kumar) admonishes him. He promises to take care of the boy and love him as his own. In the meantime, the boy's real-life parents reconcile and turn to a police officer (Vinod Khanna) for help in finding their missing son. When the boy is located, the rickshawala is ...
Warm Springs is a 2005 made-for-television biography drama film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by Margaret Nagle, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates, Tim Blake Nelson, Jane Alexander, and David Paymer.
[2] [3] He contracted polio at the age of six and was paralyzed for life, only able to move his head, neck, and mouth. [4] [5] [6] During a major U.S. outbreak of polio in the early 1950s, hundreds of children around Dallas, Texas, including Alexander, were taken to Parkland Hospital. There, children were treated in a ward of iron lungs.
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He contracted polio at the age of two and is a full-time wheelchair user. James Glenn Beall: 1894–1971 Former Republican member of the United States Senate from Maryland. He suffered from polio as a child and underwent several operations before age 12. His left arm and leg were permanently withered. [118] Kim Beazley: born 1948
The Sessions is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin.It is based on the 1990 article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity.