Word: missed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miracle Worker tells in remarkably unmawkish fashion the story of the childhood of Helen Keller. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in infancy by a near-fatal illness, is deservedly one of the marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
...homestead, realizes that the W-A-T-E-R which Annie is spelling out in her hand means something and that that something is the water flowing over her arms. With this discovery of language, Annie's job has both ended and just begun; from this first world "water" Miss Keller built and understood a world...
...audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...
...Miss America has found it politically fit to patronize us, sweetly stating that going with a beatnik would be a rich experience. Ha!" Mortimer unleashed his usually docile imagination to understand better the enormity of the crisis...
...Negami and Fujiko Yamanuto, who play the lovers, are aided by their director's sense of timing, which cuts off each of their encounters before the point where the anguish or tenderness would be no longer bearable. Miss Yamanuto's doll-like charm is quite irresistable in a setting of fans, orchards, and gentle snowfall...