Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Sister Kenny (1946)
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sister Kenny, 1946.
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Rosalind Russell gives an Oscar nominated performance as Sister Kenny (1946), the true story of the Australian nurse who fought to gain acceptance for her polio-treatment methods.
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Rosalind Russell as title character, Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny, with boyfriend Kevin (Dean Jagger), an army doctor, recounting a polio case then reporting to her mentor doctor (Alexander Knox) about what they discover is a radical treatment she's invented, in Sister Kenny, 1946.
Sister Kenny (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Symptoms Presenting Themselves
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Sister Kenny (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Gonna Be That Bush Nurse
Queensland, Australia, 1911, Rosalind Russell playing her personal friend, the pioneering nurse Elizabeth Kenny, coming home with sponsor Dr. McDonnell (Alexander Knox, also co-screenwriter) to parents (Beulah Bondi, Charles Dingle), opening writer-producer-director Dudley Nichols' Sister Kenny, 1946.