The story of Anne Sullivan's efforts to teach Helen Keller, a young Victorian-era blind and deaf girl, how to communicate is so well-known, it's taken on an almost legendary quality. Helen had ...

Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind ... (Georgina Kleege) It's wild. It's a wild movie. In some ways, it's kind of a straight-up biography, with her playing herself, which is always an ...

Yes, Helen Keller’s story is important and having a movie showcases her accomplishments, but it’s told through the lens of an able-bodied figure (that being Anne Bancroft’s Oscar-winning ...

Set during the early 1900’s, the movie will follow Keller’s tumultuous ... Director Wash Westmoreland commented: “Most people only know of Helen Keller’s story from when she was a child.

Ever since I can remember, Helen Keller has been etched in my brain ... “inspiration porn,” I would have shouted it at the movie screen! I had no love, either, for the images of Keller ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Abigail Breslin is set to play Helen Keller in the first Broadway ... Jones and other mythical adventures. Movies // 21 hours ago Pierce Brosnan paints ...

Based on an screenplay by Laetitia Mikles and Westmoreland, in consultation with a team at Helen Keller National Center for Youth and Adults, the film will be set during the early 1900s ...

NARRATOR: Pretty much everyone learns about Helen Keller in school. From picture books to the movie The Miracle Worker. DESCRIPTION: Scene from The Miracle Worker. NARRATOR: She’s a staple in ...

So, here we are, nearly a century later leading some to ask: What lessons can Helen Keller teach us today? Why are we still making movies, and writing articles about her? Willfully ignorant ...

Author and humanitarian Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind since childhood, is shown during her documentary film, The Unconquered, on June 18, 1954. The movie, also known as Helen Keller in Her ...

Helen Keller refused to have anything to do with ... Since then, in lectures, and recently in movie-tone, the two women have demonstrated the process of instruction hundreds of times.