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Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film, directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The play was adapted for the screen by writers Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube.
A deaf-mute woman is raped and pregnant by a fisherman in a Nova Scotia village. A doctor tries to help her, but faces opposition from her family and the community.
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- Jean Negulesco
- 1948-09-14
A drama film noir based on a play by Elmer Harris, starring Jane Wyman as a deaf farm girl and Lew Ayres as a small-town doctor. The film explores the challenges and joys of communication and love across the language barrier.
In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes an interest in a sweet deaf mute named Belinda. He teaches her sign language and lip reading, and she soon falls in love with him. When Belinda is left alone one night, she is raped by the town bully, Locky MacCormick.
Find out who starred in the 1948 film Johnny Belinda, directed by Jean Negulesco and based on a stage play. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
In this acclaimed drama, Belinda McDonald (Jane Wyman), a young deaf-mute woman living off the coast of Canada on Cape Breton Island, becomes close to the new...
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