Warm Springs (film)
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Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career.
It stars Kenneth Branagh as Roosevelt, Cynthia Nixon as Eleanor Roosevelt, Kathy Bates as physical therapist Helena Mahoney, and Tim Blake Nelson as Tom Loyless. It was produced by Home Box Office.
Jane Alexander plays Sara Delano Roosevelt, FDR's mother; she played Eleanor Roosevelt in the acclaimed 1976 telefilm Eleanor and Franklin and its 1977 sequel Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.
A peer-reviewed study in 2003 determined that Roosevelt's paralytic illness was more likely caused by Guillain-Barré syndrome, not polio. See separate article on Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness.
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- Warm Springs at IMDB
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