The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983)
February 9, 1983Release Date
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983)
February 9, 1983Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Cloris Leachman
May Lemke
Leif Green
Leslie
M. Emmet Walsh
Joe Lemke
Kirk Cameron
Willy
Rosemary Murphy
Gladys
Fran Bennett
Nurse Matthews
Fran Bennett
Nurse Matthews
James Noble
Dr. Edwards
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
"The Woman Who Willed a Miracle" is a 1983 episode of the American television anthology series ABC Afterschool Special, starring Cloris Leachman, M. Emmet Walsh, Leif Green and Rosemary Murphy.
Dick Clark was the executive producer under the auspices of his company, Dick Clark Productions. It was produced by Preston Fischer, Sharron Miller, and Joanne Curley-Kerner, and was directed by Sharron Miller and written by Arthur Heinemann. It tells the extraordinary true story of Leslie Lemke, a blind, cognitively impaired boy with cerebral palsy who was raised from infancy by a foster mother who stubbornly refused to let him die. Because of her love and dedication, he not only survived but was discovered to be a musical savant.
The New York Times called it one of the most famous of all Afterschool Specials.