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Sister Elizabeth Kenny (20 September 1880 – 30 November 1952) was a self-trained Australian bush nurse who developed an approach to treating polio that was controversial at the time. Her method, promoted internationally while working in Australia, Europe and the United States, differed from the conventional one of placing affected limbs in ...
Sister Kenny is a 1946 American biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment. The film stars Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, and Philip Merivale.
Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic. His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage. [4] Marion Davies: 1897–1961 Actress who had a relationship with William Randolph Hearst. She caught polio ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
In 1950, Chadwick was awarded the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation scholarship for research. In 2002, he received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award for "outstanding service to maltreated children." [18] In 2010, the American Medical Association presented him the Scientific Achievement Award for his pioneering work in child abuse treatment and ...
Judy Catherine Claire Parfitt (born 7 November 1935) [2] is an English theatre, film, and television actress. She made her film debut in the 1950s, followed by a supporting role in the BBC television serial David Copperfield (1966).
Sister Mary Benedict: The Bells of St. Mary's [3] 1946: Rosalind Russell: Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Sister Kenny [4] 1947: Rosalind Russell: Lavinia Mannon: Mourning Becomes Electra [5] 1948: Jane Wyman: Belinda MacDonald: Johnny Belinda [6] 1949: Olivia de Havilland: Catherine Sloper: The Heiress [7] Deborah Kerr: Evelyn Boult: Edward, My Son
"With all that Kenny has made in his life, he like me, was brought up very poor," Dolly Parton says of her beloved friend in the Biography: Kenny Rogers special