Entertainment & Sports
Aug. 12, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Johnny Belinda (1948)
The film was the first to allow a hearing audience to experience the evolution of a deaf character from a negatively stereotypical “dummy” to a human being who happened to be deaf.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? An eyewitness has to decide whether to stand up to community hate and prejudice in a film nominated for 12 Academy Awards.
Belinda MacDonald (Jane Wyman) is a deaf mute who is an object of scorn in a small town. Locky McCormick's rape of Belinda results in her giving birth to a son, Johnny. When Locky and his wife Stella try to take Johnny by force, Belinda shoots Locky and is tried for murder.
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