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- Thank you to 60 Minutes for doing this segment. I really enjoyed it and the movie. I saw on another TV program that Mark Logue, the grandson of the speech therapist, has written (or is writing) a book about "The King's Speech". Something else to look forward to!
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- I saw the movie twice and loved it. I was struggling with the "King" as he tried to speak. A wonderful production about this historical person and his challenges. Firth nailed it, and Rush was superb.
Finding these documents was a great asset to the making the movie.
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- This is such a touching account and to know it is historically accurate makes this movie all the more Oscar-worthy. I don't know when I've been to a movie when the audience clapped at the end - and they did for this one. I adored it and felt to reach for the tissues in the final scene.
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- What a wonderfully superb movie!! I was a history major in college and I really enjoyed seeing history played out from a very personal angle. Colin Firth does a marvelous job of helping us understand King George VI from a human standpoint so that we can all relate to him. I appreciate everything that I can listen to, or read about this movie. Thank you to the fine actors, producers, etc who gave us this excellent film. Thank you, as well, to the Sixty Minutes staff for this insightful broadcast.
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- As amazing as I thought the movie itself was, this back story with the discovery of all the old documents tucked away in the attic was even more amazing. I feel sure the movie will take home many Oscars, but I wonder about the future of the documents -- will they be showing up on "Cash in the Attic" or at Sotheby's? Of course, the grandson could donate them to a museum or get a great book out of them . . .
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- Oh no, my goosebumps still came out even after watching 60 minutes last night. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful story of friendship.
Thailand still bans The King and I which is another story of friendship--I love this movie as much as The King's Speech even though I was from Thailand and brought up in a "royalist" family. My God-grandfather was the head treasurer of King Chulalongkorn, it makes me wonder if my god-family still have some documents hidden somewhere in the attic.
Worth looking for when I go home this summer!
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- Fantastic job 60 minutes and Scot Pelley. The movie, your story, and overtime brought people long gone back to life in such a heartfelt way. Surely each of us who never had a stammer can still feel his pain, and joy in his eventual triumph. The overtime pictures showing the future Queen Elizabeth as a child made it seem especially poignant.
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- This whole story and with this overtime gives me goosebumps
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- Kibo22. Very hard for Margret to share with us anything about those years. She died in 2002 and was creamated.
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- It would be nice for Queen Elizabeth or her sister would share the insights they know of their parents about these events....and how it impacted the daughters. I suspect that the strength and tenacity of the queen derives in some measure from this experience. It is of considerable historic value to understand how one overcomes such adversity.....especially in these historic times of World War II and the abdication of the throne. I allows Americans to better understand the strength of the queen mother and the affection she was held by England.
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