People don’t understand that polio is a fever that just hits you for one night,” Coppola told the publication. “You only are ...

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of its vaccine.

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker and polio survivor, is sounding the alarm over the growing wave of ...

Famed director — and polio survivor — Francis Ford Coppola is urging new Trump administration public health picks be cautious about vaccine skepticism. The 75-year-old filmmaker recently ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

Francis Ford Coppola was warned that he might never walk again after he contracted polio as a child. The 85-year-old director ...

Francis Ford Coppola attends the 'Megalopolis' pre-opening ... the government in 2022 to reconsider approval of a widely used polio vaccine. I recalled Coppola’s experience with the disease.

Francis Ford Coppola was warned he'd never walk again after contracting polio. The 85-year-old director was stricken by the virus as a child and recalled feeling "frightened" for the other kids on the ...

Francis Ford Coppola is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports ...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...