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With her marriage to womaniser Carlo Landi (Rossano Brazzi) in ashes, wealthy and childless Margaret Landi (Joan Crawford) finds an emotional outlet in patronizing a 15-year-old deaf, mute, and blind Irish girl named Esther Costello (Heather Sears). Esther's disabilities are the result of a childhood trauma and are psychosomatic rather than physical.
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.
- (940)
- Drama
- David Miller
- 1957-11-06
The Story of Esther Costello ★★ ½ Golden Virgin 1957. Rich American Margaret Landi (Crawford) is visiting her Irish homeland when she meets Esther (Sears), a young girl rendered deaf, mute, and blind by a childhood trauma. The childless Margaret is persuaded to take Esther in as a surrogate daughter and the waif gradually begins to respond ...
Joan is "Margaret Landi," a wealthy American on a tour of her ancestral village in Ireland, who's guilted by a local priest into trying to salvage the life of the village blind/deaf teenaged girl---Esther Costello (played by Heather Sears)---currently living in squalor (fighting with a dog for food scraps, etc.).
Jan 1, 2012 · The explosion also kills Esther’s mother. It keeps proclaiming how heartfelt it is, but this is a heartless film. Crawford, stunning in Jean-Louis gowns, plays Margaret Landi, “permanently separated” from her spouse and visiting her birthplace, where she discovers Esther and, prodded by the village priest, informally adopts her.
Joan Crawford finished the fourth phase of her career with the intense 1957 melodrama, The Story of Esther Costello.The tale of Margaret Landi (Joan Crawford), a divorcee who tries to help a young woman (Heather Sears as Esther Costello) left blind and deaf by an accident, it was The Miracle Worker lite, with the added drama of Margaret's ex-husband (Rossano Brazzi) showing up and trying to exploit the girl's growing popularity for profit.
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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 sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels ...
