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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 .
Johnny Belinda: Directed by Jean Negulesco. With Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead. A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.
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- Jean Negulesco
- 1948-09-14
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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.
When a new doctor (Lew Ayres) moves to the small, isolated town in Nova Scotia, he teaches Belinda (Jane Wyman) sign language. For the first time in her life, she can communicate with others, and a whole new life opens to her.
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Johnny Belinda may refer to: Johnny Belinda (play), a 1940 Broadway play by Elmer Blaney Harris, including a list of adaptations. Johnny Belinda (1948 film), a 1948 American drama film based on the play. Johnny Belinda (1959 film), a 1959 Australian television play.
