To me this was almost 1955's Interrupted Melody, the biography of Marjorie Lawrence, so well portrayed by Eleanor Parker, who at the height of her career contracted polio and fought her way back. Both that film and Never Fear concentrate on the frustrations of the affected women and their struggle to get back to life.
Sally Forrest is wonderful as the budding dancer who contracts the disease. Everything she has going with her partner and love of her life, Keefe Braselle, is put on hold. In over-doing it, she falls and takes a downward spiral regarding attitude and her actions finally force the Braselle character out of her life.
Lawrence Dobkin of the Untouchables on television is her understanding doctor and in a complete change of pace, Hugh O'Brian turns in a very good performance as a patient in the rehabilitation center where Carol (Forrest) goes to. She spurns him but comes to understand that he understands her plight, but how he gracefully bows out when he realizes that Braselle is the person for her.
The film also emphasizes the hard and dedicated work of staff in providing therapy for polio victims.
Sally Forrest is wonderful as the budding dancer who contracts the disease. Everything she has going with her partner and love of her life, Keefe Braselle, is put on hold. In over-doing it, she falls and takes a downward spiral regarding attitude and her actions finally force the Braselle character out of her life.
Lawrence Dobkin of the Untouchables on television is her understanding doctor and in a complete change of pace, Hugh O'Brian turns in a very good performance as a patient in the rehabilitation center where Carol (Forrest) goes to. She spurns him but comes to understand that he understands her plight, but how he gracefully bows out when he realizes that Braselle is the person for her.
The film also emphasizes the hard and dedicated work of staff in providing therapy for polio victims.