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.
Cast
Actress
Jane Alexander who plays
Sara Delano Roosevelt, FDR's mother; also played Eleanor Roosevelt in the acclaimed
1976 telefilm Eleanor and Franklin and its
1977 sequel
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. Many of the
bit part actors in the film are actually disabled, though Branagh and several other of the principal actors are not. The withered look on Branagh's legs was achieved through the use of
CGI.
