Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

🎞️ Movie 90 min CA
โ˜… 6.8 /10 2001

This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.

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Cast

Caroline Dhavernas
Caroline Dhavernas
Marilyn Bell
Amy Sloan
Amy Sloan
Joan
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Graeme Somerville
George Bryant
Vlasta Vrana
Vlasta Vrana
George McBlair
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Kent McQuaid
Myron Peters
Lisa Bronwyn Moore
Lisa Bronwyn Moore
Patsy MacKinnon
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Chip Chuipka
Syd Bell
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Jennifer Morehouse
Grace Bell
Ron White
Ron White
Gus Ryder
Claudia Besso
Claudia Besso
Florence Chadwick
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David Buchbinder
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