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Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

5.0 90 mins 2001
Director(s): Manon Briand

This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.

Casts of Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

Caroline Dhavernas

as Marilyn Bell

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