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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 .
1 Video. 42 Photos. Drama. A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant. Director. Jean Negulesco. Writers. Irma von Cube. Allen Vincent. Elmer Harris. Stars. Jane Wyman. Lew Ayres. Charles Bickford. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.59. search Amazon.
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Nov 26, 2022 · 6.9K views 1 year ago. Delicate story of deaf Belinda (Jane Wyman) whose family (father Charles Bickford and aunt Agnes Moorehead) is outcast in a small Nova Scotia fishing town. A new Doctor,...
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Johnny Belinda - (Original Trailer) Jane Wyman won a Best Actress Award portraying a deaf-mute girl who learns to communicate with the help of a small town doctor (Lew Ayres) in Johnny Belinda (1948), directed by Jean Negulesco.
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Directed by Jean Negulesco, and based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris, Johnny Belinda was adapted for the screen by writers Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube. The story is based on an incident that happened near Harris's summer residence in Fortune Bridge, Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island.
Set in an island fishing village off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda stars Jane Wyman as the deaf, mute farm girl Belinda McDonald, called “the dummy” by townsfolk, who, thanks to the kindness of Dr. Richardson (Lew Ayres), learns how to connect with other human beings using sign language. While this setup may ...
