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Wall Street Journal<\/a> film critic Joe Morgenstern<\/a> has revealed that Lionel Logue<\/a> helped cure Rupert Murdoch’s father<\/a> of his stutter.<\/p>\n At the end of his most recent column<\/a>, he writes about a recent conversation with his media mogul boss who asked him what he should see:<\/p>\n “With ‘The King’s Speech’ gaining the Oscar traction it deserves\u2014the latest boost being an expression of approval from Queen Elizabeth\u2014I can’t resist going public with a story that I’ve relished telling to friends, and to the people who made the movie. Several weeks before it opened, I had a conversation with Rupert Murdoch, who popped a question familiar to movie critics: What should he see?<\/p>\n I suggested “The King’s Speech,” and, not wanting to spoil it with too many details, gave a shorthand description: Colin Firth as King George VI, who has a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as a raffish Australian speech therapist.<\/p>\n Yes, he replied, Lionel Logue.<\/p>\n “So you know the story.”<\/p>\n Not the story of the movie, he said. “Lionel Logue saved my father’s life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n When I responded with speechlessness, he explained that his father, as a young man, wanted passionately to be a newspaper reporter, but couldn’t interview people because he stuttered. Then he met Lionel Logue, who cured him in less than a year”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is not the first time Keith Murdoch has been directly connected with a film.<\/p>\n After beginning his career in journalism with The Age<\/a> in Melbourne he made a name for himself covering the Gallipoli campaign<\/a> in Turkey, a military fiasco which was brought to the screen as Peter Weir’s Gallipoli<\/a> (1981).<\/p>\n His son Rupert was by then a powerful newspaper owner and helped produce the film before going on to buy Twentieth Century Fox<\/a> in 1985.<\/p>\n > Rupert Murdoch<\/a>, Keith Murdoch<\/a> and Lionel Logue<\/a> at Wikipedia Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern has revealed that Lionel Logue helped cure Rupert Murdoch’s father of his stutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[246,1616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n> Gallipoli<\/a> at IMDb
\n> Joe Morgenstern’s piece at the WSJ<\/a>
\n> The King’s Speech LFF review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"