Deliverance (1919 film)

Deliverance is a 1919 silent film which tells the story of the life of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. It stars Etna Ross, Tula Belle, Edith Lyle, Betty Schade, Sarah Lind, Ann Mason and Jenny Lind. The film also features appearances by Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Kate Adams Keller and Phillips Brooks Keller as themselves. The movie was directed by George Foster Platt and written by Francis Trevelyan Miller.

Cast (in credits order)

• Etna Ross ... Young Helen Keller
• Tula Belle ... Young Nadja
• Edith Lyle ... Younger Anne Sullivan (as Edythe Lyle)
• Betty Schade ... Mrs. Kate Adams Keller as a young woman
• Jenny Lind ... Martha Washington
• Sarah Lind ... Mammy
• Ann Mason ... Helen Keller as a young woman
• Helen Keller ... Herself
• Anne Sullivan ... Herself
• Kate Adams Keller ... Herself
• Phillips Brooks Keller ... Himself
• Polly Thompson ... Helen's secretary
• Ardita Mellinina ... Nadja
• J. Parks Jones ... Nadja's son
• True Boardman ... Helen's boy friend (uncredited)
• Herbert Heyes ... Ulysses^[1] (uncredited)

Preservation status

A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress film archive.^[1]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deliverance (1919 film).

• Deliverance at the Internet Movie Database

Helen Keller
Life history	Ivy Green Tuscumbia, Alabama Laura Bridgman Alexander Graham Bell Charles W. Adams
Schools attended	Perkins School for the Blind Anne Sullivan Wright-Humason School for the Deaf Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing The Cambridge School of Weston Radcliffe College
Related foundations	Helen Keller International American Civil Liberties Union Helen Keller Services for the Blind
Related works	"The Frost King" The Story of My Life The World I Live In My Religion Light in My Darkness Deliverance Helen Keller in Her Story The Miracle Worker The Miracle Continues Black
Related topics	Helen Keller Day