''The Dark Wave'' is a 1956 American short

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

directed by Jean Negulesco about a young girl with severe

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures can vary from brief and nearly undetectable periods to long periods of vigorous shaking due to abnormal electrica ...

. The short stars

Charles Bickford Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor known for supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), '' The F ...

and features

Nancy Davis Nancy Davis Reagan (; born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of president Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born in Ne ...

, the actress who would later become

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Nancy Reagan. It was made in cooperation with the Variety Club Foundation to Combat Epilepsy (a predecessor of the Epilepsy Foundation), who received the profits. ''The Dark Wave'' was nominated for two

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, one for Best Documentary Short and the other for Best Two-Reel Short.

Cast

* Cornell Borchers

References

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* 1956 films 1956 short films 1950s short documentary films American short documentary films 20th Century Fox short films Films directed by Jean Negulesco 1956 documentary films Documentary films about children with disability Epilepsy 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{short-documentary-film-stub

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