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The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film starring Joan Crawford and co-starring Rossano Brazzi, and Heather Sears. The film is a story of large-scale fundraising. The Story of Esther Costello was produced by David Miller and Jack Clayton, with Miller directing. The screenplay by Charles Kaufman was based on the 1952 novel by ...
The Story of Esther Costello: Directed by David Miller. With Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson. Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother.
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- Drama
- David Miller
- 1957-11-06
The Story of Esther Costello was her big break, bringing her a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She followed it with Room at the Top (1959), where her fine performance as Laurence Harvey's wealthy fiancée was overshadowed by Simone Signoret's Oscar®-winning work as his ...
- David Miller, Peter Bolton, Roger Good
- Joan Crawford
The Story of Esther Costello. A terrible accident leaves Esther Costello (Heather Sears) blind, deaf, mute and without a mother. Living in squalor with her aunt in Ireland, Esther is rescued by a ...
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- David Miller
- Drama
- Joan Crawford
Summaries. Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own ...
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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll relish every bite in the meantime. Joan Crawford plays a well-meaning woman who throws herself whole-hog into every charitable cause that comes down the pike.
