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Canal Street is a 2018 American drama thriller film directed by Rhyan LaMarr. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film was distributed by Smith Global Media and opened over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. [ 4 ] It was filmed in Chicago . [ 3 ]
Tiny Tim is believed to have had either rickets, tuberculosis (TB), polio, and/or cerebral palsy. [26] [27] 1978 Walter Walter: David Cook: He has learning and communication disabilities. [28] [29] 1937 Lennie Small Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck: He is a migrant worker with learning and communication disabilities. He relies on his best friend ...
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
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
Jon Raymond Polito (December 29, 1950 – September 1, 2016) was an American actor. [1] In a film and television career spanning 35 years, he amassed over 220 credits. [2] His television roles included Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street and Phil Bartoli on the first season of Crime Story.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Marilyn Agrelo.Based on the non-fiction book Street Gang by Michael Davis, the film chronicles the development and airing of the children's television program Sesame Street, featuring interviews with series creators Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, as well as writers, actors, and artists involved in ...
Following Atwood's marriage to Bob DeBolt, who had one biological daughter from a previous marriage, the couple went on to adopt 10 more children from Korea, Vietnam, the United States, and Mexico — the last was adopted after the initial film was made and is not included in the "19 kids" of the title.
Peg: Main character and narrator of the story, diagnosed with polio. Karen: Peg's best friend at school; Tommy: Peg's hospital roommate at University Hospital, in an iron lung. Renee: Sheltering Arms roommate, who goes home for Christmas. Shirley: Sheltering Arms roommate, who has the worst polio and likes marshmallows.