Marjorie Lawrence: The World at Her Feet
Original title: Marjorie Lawrence: The World at Her Feet
Original language: enIMDB: tt15359888
TMDB: 914177
Release date: Thursday, 16th December 2021
Adult: No
Genres:
Documentary
Duration: 1h 20min
Popularity: 0.959
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Overview: Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria, Australia, dreaming of becoming an opera star like Dame Nellie Melba. In 1928 she went to Paris to study opera without knowing a word of French and having never heard of Richard Wagner. In 1941, at the height her success, she was tragically cut down by polio and became completely paralysed. With the help of Australian nurse, Sister Kenny, Marjorie regained movement in her upper body and resumed her career in a wheelchair. In 1955, MGM made a movie of her life, "Interrupted Melody", starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, which won an Academy Award.
Popularity: 0.959
Rate:
Overview: Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria, Australia, dreaming of becoming an opera star like Dame Nellie Melba. In 1928 she went to Paris to study opera without knowing a word of French and having never heard of Richard Wagner. In 1941, at the height her success, she was tragically cut down by polio and became completely paralysed. With the help of Australian nurse, Sister Kenny, Marjorie regained movement in her upper body and resumed her career in a wheelchair. In 1955, MGM made a movie of her life, "Interrupted Melody", starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, which won an Academy Award.
Directors
Wayne Groom
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Wayne Groom (Writer)
(Writer)Cast
Kiri Te Kanawa
(Narrator)
(Narrator)Ita Buttrose
(Self)
(Self)Richard Bonynge
(Self)
(Self)Brian Castles Onion (Self)
(Self)Miki Oikawa
(Self)
(Self)John Bolton-Wood
(Self)
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