Episode 161: Johnny Belinda

ABOUT THE EPISODE:

Johnny Belinda, a movie named first for an infant child barely seen in the film and secondly for the so-called main character onto whom everyone around her projects their own feelings and presumptions rather than just let her express herself, begins the long and frustrating history of the Academy’s effusive celebration of able actors portraying disabled characters in Inspiration Porn.

SHOW NOTES

Year Eligible: 1948 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Johnny Belinda (1948)

(Explicit language, as always)