Sister Kenny is a 1946 biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny was an unqualified Australian nurse who promoted a controversial new approach to the treatment of poliomyelitis in the era before mass vaccination eradicated the disease in most countries.-Youth:...

, an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment. It stars Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...

, Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century.-Biography:...

, Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...

, Philip Merivale

Philip Merivale

Philip Merivale was an English film and stage actor and screenwriter....

 and Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, she reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version...

.

The movie was adapted by Milton Gunzburg

Milton Gunzburg

Milton Lowell Gunzburg was an American journalist and screenwriter. Gunzburg developed the Natural Vision stereoscopic 3-D system.-Career:...

 (uncredited), Alexander Knox, Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy (screenwriter)

Mary Eunice McCarthy was an American screenwriter.She wrote or co-wrote the screenplays, or developed the stories for Slightly Married , Woman Unafraid , Life Returns , Theodora Goes Wild , Irish Luck , Chasing Trouble , Sister Kenny , Curley , and The Petty Girl .Mary Eunice McCarthy is not to...

 and Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936....

 from the book And They Shall Walk, by Elizabeth Kenny and Martha Ostenso

Martha Ostenso

Martha Ostenso was a Canadian novelist and screenwriter.-Background:Ostenso was born in Haukeland , in Hordaland County, Norway. Her parents were Sigurd and Olina Ostenso. She emigrated with her family to the United States in 1902...

. It was directed by Dudley Nichols.

Cast

• Rosalind Russell
  Rosalind Russell
  Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...
  
   as Elizabeth Kenny
• Alexander Knox
  Alexander Knox
  Alexander Knox was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century.-Biography:...
  
   as Dr. McDonnell
• Dean Jagger
  Dean Jagger
  Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...
  
   as Kevin Connors
• Philip Merivale
  Philip Merivale
  Philip Merivale was an English film and stage actor and screenwriter....
  
   as Dr. Brack
• Beulah Bondi
  Beulah Bondi
  Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, she reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version...
  
   as Mary Kenny
• Charles Dingle
  Charles Dingle
  Charles Dingle was an American stage and film actor.He was best-known for his role as Ben Hubbard in The Little Foxes and for his role as a senator in the film version of Call Me Madam...
  
   as Michael Kenny
• John Litel
  John Litel
  John Litel was an American film actor. During World War I, Litel enlisted in the French Army and was twice decorated for bravery....
  
   as Medical Director
• Doreen McCann as Dorrie
• Fay Helm as Mrs. McIntyre
• Charles Kemper
  Charles Kemper
  Charles Kemper was an American stage-trained film character actor born in Oklahoma. The heavy-set film actor had memorable roles in films including The Southerner , Scarlet Street , Gallant Journey , The Shocking Miss Pilgrim , and his last film role as Pop Daly in the film noir On Dangerous Ground...
  
   as Mr. McIntyre
• Dorothy Peterson
  Dorothy Peterson
  Dorothy Peterson was an American actress.Peterson was born in Hector, Minnesota of Swedish immigrant ancestry. She made her screen debut in 1930's Mothers Cry, a domestic drama that required the 29-year-old actress to age nearly three decades in the course of the film...
  
   as Agnes

Awards

Rosalind Russell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951...

.