This is a Disney movie, and tells the true story of Sonora Webster
Carver (Gabrielle ANwar). It is a depression era movie, and Sonora was determined to make
it to Atlantic City to make her future. She manages to gain employment
with Doc Carver (Cliff Robertson), first as a stable hand, and later as a diving girl.
Doc Carver, a famous sharpshooter, and contemporary of Wild Bill Hickok
and Buffalo Bill, had put together an act using diving horses with a
young woman rider. Unfortunately Doc passes away before they take the
act to Atlantic City. His son, and Sonora's future husband, takes over
the show. In this movie you have a young woman determined to be a
(Michael Schoeffling) success, and she learns how to mount a moving horse to be a diving
girl. What is even more dramatic is that after losing her eye sight to
an accident where she went into the water face first with her eyes open,
causing the detachment of her retinas, she continued to perform as a
diving girl. I discovered in real life she performed for eleven more
years blind, and a total of 20 years. In real life passed away only ten
years ago at the age of 99.
The actress that portrays Sonora is Fionna on "Burn Notice."
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