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Joey: the autobiography of Joey Deacon (TEFC)

United Kingdom, 1974
film

Joey Deacon, born in 1920 with brain damage, grew up severely spastic, unable to talk or walk. When, in 1928, his mother died, he was sent to an institution w..

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Nicky: one of my best friends

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The James Dean story: a different kind of motion picture

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