| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Partners of the Heart. Prod. by Andrea Kalin. Spark Media, 2003. 56 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 15, 2004])

Partners of the Heart tells the moving story of the personal triumph of Vivien Thomas, an African American medical technician who collaborated with Dr. Alfred Blalock on a medical miracle at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film documents the partnership between two medical men, one black and one white. Thomas, who longed to be a doctor, lost his savings for college at the start of the Great Depression and only entered the world of medicine when Dr. Alfred Blalock, an ambitious, talented white surgeon at Vanderbilt Medical School, hired him to work in his laboratory. When Dr. Blalock was offered a position at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in 1941, he convinced Thomas to move with him as his assistant. The film convincingly argues that Dr. Blalock's rise to national and international fame as a pioneer cardiac surgeon was the outcome of his partnership with Thomas.

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