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The next movie we have coming up, I know you have a keen interest in and it's not available
on DVD so it's a rare opportunity for people to see it.
It's one of those films that I was delighted to bring to TCM and to the festival. It's
really... it shows you what Hollywood can do it it wants to. Was brought to me by a
film-maker named Jenni Gold who is doing a documentary on this issue called "CinemAbility"...
it's an actress named Susan Peters who had worked with Lionel Barrymore earlier in her
career, and was a shining star, sort of rising if you will, who became paralyzed through
a gunshot accident -- the studio didn't give up on her though, they liked this actress
so much that they said we're gonna develop this vehicle for her. The film is called "Sign
of the Ram"... think about Joan Crawford on wheels, if you will. She manipulates her family,
she manipulates her surroundings, she's as angry and as vile I think as any character
you could see but she owns that role. And it's ... a bravura performance, a movie that
deserves its due and deserves to be seen by a larger audience.
Alright Lawrence, thanks very much. Lawrence and I are actually done for the night, but
we're gonna be back, together, next Tuesday to talk about how disabled people have been
portrayed in films over the years. For now, stick around because up next the film Lawrence
and I have been talking about "The Sign of the Ram" 1948 and director John Sturges with
Susan Peters.