Classic Movies Johnny Belinda (1948)


For this week's classic movies let's have a look at the 1948 movie Johnny Belinda.  Belinda MacDonald(Jane Wyman) who is deaf and Mute living on an farm with Her Father Black(Charles Bickford) and Aunty Aggie (Agnes Moorehead) in Canada's East Coast and then an new doctor Robert Richardson (Lew Ayres) takes an interest to help Belinda getting out of her silent prison by showing her sign language  as well as signs of many things and ideas. Stella (Jan Sterling) who is the secretary for the Doctor who is also attracted to him  and Locky McCormick (Stephen McNally) who is one of the family's customers gets drunk and rapes Belinda which leads her to  giving birth to a son Johnny and it gets interesting. It's an FANTASTIC movie with FANTASTIC acting by Jane Wyman who the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Belinda and Lew Ayres who was nominated as Best Actor with Charles Bickford nominated as Best Supporting Actor and Agnes Moorehead nominated as Best Supporting Actress as well as Stephen McNally and Jan Sterling as well as appearances by Alan Napier who would go on to play Alfred in the TV series Batman in the 60's, Barbara Bates and Ian Wolfe. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, directed by Jerry Wald and Max Steiner did the music and it was based on the Broadway Stage play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris  which was adapted to the screen by writers Allen Vincent and Irma Von Cube. It was based on an actual incident that occurred at Harris' summer residence in Fortune Bridge, Bay Fortune Prince Edward Island. It was the first Hollywood film for which the restriction was relaxed and as such was controversial at the time it came out due to the subject of rape. It holds up very well to this day as well as an good story and inspirational.  

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