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Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery.
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. [3]
Vivien Thomas: Mos Def: Stage Beauty: Edward Kynaston: Billy Crudup: Thérèse: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: Lindsay Younce: The Blue Butterfly: Pete Carlton (The character is based on David Marenger) [7] Marc Donato: Troy: Achilles: Brad Pitt: Hector: Eric Bana: Paris of Troy: Orlando Bloom: Helen of Troy: Diane Kruger: Agamemnon: Brian Cox ...
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas: Musical: 20th Century Fox. Based on the Broadway show ... Based on a book by Theodore Dreiser; won 6 Academy Awards ...
Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology.She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome).
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The early episodes of Desperate Housewives (2004) have numerous allusions to Sunset Boulevard, including the use of a dead person as a narrator, and another character's fondness for Billy Wilder movies. In the movie Hick, Luli (Chloë Grace Moretz) can be found in her room reciting the movie in the mirror. Moretz stated that she was the one who ...
The film was shot primarily on location in Wales and has since acquired a reputation among aficionados as a cult movie. [4] " The film, beautifully photographed and spoken, casts the brooding spell of Thomas’ verse in its reconstruction of the seaside village and the daily round of its inhabitants", wrote Andrew Sinclair in the International ...