Films involving Dwarfism

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Title	Woman for Joe, A (1955)
Alternative/Original Title
Disability	Dwarf
Country	UK
Length	90
Genre	Circus
Rating	1
Director	George Moore O'Ferrell
Cast	George Baker Diane Cliento Jimmy Karoubi Earl Cameron Violet Farebrother David Kossof
Notes	This is an exploitation film which has no sense of its own shame. The owner of a fair ground buys a dwarf, rubber man to enhance his business. Jimmy Karoubil who plays George is always referred to as a midget. Technically this is or was correct since a little person who was proportionally small was called a midget, while one whose head was proportionally bigger than the body was called a dwarf. But for a while now midget has been considered an offensive term. Though when I read nearly everyday of people who are "wheel-bound" or "afflicted" with their disability one wonders how much has changed. But this film has no self-consciousness. When you can buy a "midget" for ú86 and sell him for ú250 that's business. The boss of the fair is kind to his 'little friend'. On his birthday he buys him a dwarf woman for ú100. But as George says "I hate midgets". In a so called accident but is really a bit of fun George is injured when the fair workers collapse a tent with him inside leaving him with a punctured lung and pneumonia. As he recovers a Hungarian singer joins the fair and he falls in love with "a big woman". Unfortunately the fair's boss falls for her too. And when George joins the trapeze act you know he's going to die leaving the stage free for the "big man".

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