Later, Sonora finds an advertisement in a newspaper for a horse diving girl. Her teacher ignores her for the rest of the day. At school, Sonora hits Clarabelle after being made fun of and is suspended from school, though Sonora refuses to leave. In the jump, Lightning breaks a fence and accidentally sets a herd of cows loose. One girl named Clarabelle calls her bluff, daring Sonora to jump. Sonora claims that Lightning can outrun any horse and jump over any fence. She is confronted by some schoolyard bullies who make fun of her hair and her horse. On her way to school, Sonora tends to her horse, Lightning. She cuts her hair to imitate a famous magazine model, causing her aunt to force her to wear a bag on her head as punishment. Sonora dreams of leaving her aunt’s home and living in Atlantic City. Sonora Webster lives with her sister, Arnette, and her strict and abusive aunt Helen during the height of the Great Depression. If you are already familiar with this film, feel free to skip ahead to our review. Our synopsis is available below if you need some catching up. Carver insisted that the horses loved the dives and were not forced to jump, according to Allen Pergament, an Atlantic City historian.Have you ever heard the story of Sonora Webster Carver? This week we watched Disney’s take on the life of this famous horse diver in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, which is the 91st film in the Disnerd Movie Challenge. The diving horses were a popular attraction at the pier before being discontinued in the 1970's after complaints from animal-rights advocates. Carver was part of an act that included her sister, Arnette Webster French, who died in 2000, and their friend Josephine K. Carver continued to ride the high-diving horses until World War II.ĭuring her career, Ms. In 1931, she went blind from detached retinas suffered after one of her horses, Red Lips, hit the water off-balance. In 1924, she made history when she plummeted 40 feet on horseback into a tank of water. Sonora Webster Carver, the first woman to ride the diving horses at Steel Pier in Atlantic City and the inspiration for the 1991 Disney movie ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken,'' died here on Sunday.
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