Calling Dr. Kildare
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| Directed by | Harold S. Bucquet |
| Produced by | Lou Ostrow |
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| Based on | "Calling Dr. Kildare" by Max Brand |
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| Music by | David Snell |
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| Edited by | Robert J. Kern |
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| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $271,000[1] |
| Box office | $892,000[1] |
Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor.[2]
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Cast
- Lew Ayres as Dr. James Kildare
- Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Gillespie
- Laraine Day as Mary Lamont
- Nat Pendleton as Wayman
- Lana Turner as Rosalie
- Lynne Carver as Alice Raymond
- Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Stephen Kildare
- Emma Dunn as Mrs. Martha Kildare
Release
Calling Dr. Kildare was released in April 1939, the second in M-G-M's Kildare series. According to MGM records, the film earned $626,000 in the US and Canada and $266,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $307,000.[1]
New York Times reviewer Frank Nugent, while bemoaning the damage done to artistic values by series pictures, still called it "pleasantly entertaining" and "on the whole, successfully sugar-coated".[3]
References
External links
- Calling Dr. Kildare at AllMovie
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Calling Dr. Kildare at IMDb
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