The Story of Esther Costello (1957)

Eighteenyearold Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother Wealthy Margaret Landi a native of Esthers village in Ireland is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter but finds Esthers innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy exhusband Radiant performance by Heather Sears Based on a book that nearly had Helen Kellers coworkers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan