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[Brown, Debbie]

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TCM to Examine Hollywood's Depiction of People with Disabilities in The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film in October Lawrence Carter-Long Joins TCM's Robert Osborne for Historic Month-Long Film Exploration, Presented in Collaboration with Inclusion in the Arts

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will dedicate the month of October to exploring the ways people with disabilities have been portrayed in film. On behalf of Inclusion in the Arts, Lawrence Carter-Long will join TCM host Robert Osborne for The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film. The special month-long exploration will air Tuesdays in October, beginning Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. (ET).

   TCM makes today's announcement to coincide with the 22nd anniversary  of the signing of the Americans with Disability Act
 (ADA) on July 26. And in a first for TCM, all films will be presented  with both closed captioning and audio description (via secondary
 audio) for audience members with auditory and visual disabilities.

   TCM's exploration of disability in cinema includes many  Oscar(r)-winning and nominated films, such as An Affair to Remember  (1957), in which Deborah Kerr's romantic rendezvous with Cary Grant is nearly derailed by a paralyzing accident; A Patch of Blue (1965), with  Elizabeth Hartman as a blind white girl who falls in love with a black man, played by Sidney Poitier; Butterflies Are Free (1972), starring  Edward Albert as a blind man attempting to break free from his over-protective mother; and Gaby: A True Story (1987), the powerful  tale of a girl with cerebral palsy trying to gain independence as an artist; Johnny Belinda(1948), starring Jane Wyman as a "deaf-mute" 
 forced to defy expectations; The Miracle Worker (1962), starring Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller; One Flew  Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), with Jack Nicholson as a patient in a mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the infamous Nurse Ratched;  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), the post-War drama starring  Fredric March, Myrna Loy and real-life disabled veteran Harold  Russell; and Charly (1968), with Cliff Robertson as an intellectually disabled man who questions the limits of science after being turned  into a genius.

   The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film also features several lesser-known classics ripe for rediscovery, including the  atmospheric Val Lewton chiller Bedlam (1946), the intriguing blind-detective mystery Eyes in the Night (1942); A Child is Waiting  (1963), with Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland; the British family drama Mandy (1953); and a bravura performance by wheelchair user Susan  Peters in Sign of the Ram (1948). A complete schedule is included.