Johnny Belinda

…next film, the 1948 drama Johnny Belinda, was perhaps his greatest triumph. It starred Jane Wyman in an Oscar-winning performance as a deaf Canadian farm girl who is raped, finds she is pregnant, and bonds with a sensitive doctor (Lew Ayres). A major box-office success, the film was nominated for…

…a deaf rape victim in Johnny Belinda (1948); she also won Oscar nominations for her roles in The Blue Veil (1951) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). Other notable films included The Glass Menagerie (1950) and All That Heaven Allows (1955).