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AKA Doc Pomus

Directed by Peter Miller & Will Hechter

98 Min | English | Canada, US | 2012 | Documentary
music,paralyzed,polio,singing | Feature | Open Captions | Audio Description
Music, Romance

After being paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder renamed himself Doc Pomus, reinventing himself first as a blues singer and then as one of American popular music’s greatest songwriters, writing classics like, ‘Save the Last Dance for Me,’ ‘This Magic Moment,’ ‘A Teenager in Love,’ and ‘Viva Las Vegas.’ AKA Doc Pomus brings to life Doc’s joyous, romantic, heartbreaking, and extraordinarily eventful journey.

Disabilities featured:

Physical Disability

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