In this 1953 film, Joan Crawford plays Jenny Stewart ... |
... a Broadway star of such hit musicals as "Evening with Jenny," "Another Evening with Jenny," "Yet Another Evening with Jenny," "Oh My God It's Jenny Again" and "Go Home, Jenny, You're Drunk." |
She is loved by all and is a big star -- so big that her eyebrows have their own dressing room. |
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Jenny is a hard-driving pro onstage and off -- she even makes sure her robe matches the pencils on her nightstand. |
But her hard exterior covers a yearning soul of molten lava, cotton candy and unfinished Lisa Frank coloring books. |
The only person who can, you should excuse the expression, penetrate Jenny is Ty, her blind arranger. |
They get along splendidly. |
Jenny even starts trying to learn braille until she realizes she's just turning the radio on and off. |
But Ty turns his back on Jenny. He walks out during her big blackface number, a toe-tapper called "Staggering Multicultural Insensitivity." |
Still, Jenny can't stay away. She presents herself to Ty with an outfit that's a stunning salute to autumn, which she describes to him because he can't see. |
Even an eye massage doesn't help. |
Neither does Jenny's attempt to clone herself as a larger, easier-to-see person. |
But in the end it doesn't matter, because as well all know, love is differently abled. I mean blind. |
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