Marjorie Lawrence The World at Her Feet

Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria Australia dreaming of becoming an opera star like Dame Nellie Melba In 1928 she went to Paris to study opera without knowing a word of French and having never heard of Richard Wagner In 1941 at the height her success she was tragically cut down by polio and became completely paralysed With the help of Australian nurse Sister Kenny Marjorie regained movement in her upper body and resumed her career in a wheelchair In 1955 MGM made a movie of her life Interrupted Melody starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford which won an Academy Award