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词条 The Secret of Dr. Kildare
释义

  1. Plot summary

  2. Cast

  3. Censorship

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = The Secret of Dr. Kildare
| image = File:Secret of dr kildare poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Film poster
| director = Harold S. Bucquet
| producer = Lou L. Ostrow
| based on = {{based on|The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 article in Cosmopolitan|Max Brand}}[1]
| screenplay = Willis Goldbeck
Harry Ruskin
| narrator =
| starring = Lew Ayres
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Atwill
| music = David Snell
| cinematography = Alfred Gilks
| editing = Frank E. Hull
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{film date|1939|11|24}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}

The Secret of Dr. Kildare is a 1939 American film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the fourth of a total of ten Dr. Kildare pictures, Lew Ayres starred in the last nine.

Plot summary

Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), racing against time in his battle with melanoma, is about to start an important research project at Blair General Hospital to improve the use a Sulfa drug, Sulfapyridine, as a cure for pneumonia with the help of his assistant, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres). Paul Messenger (Lionel Atwill), a Wall Street tycoon, asks for Gillespie's help in diagnosing the drastic, sudden personality changes that occur in his daughter Nancy (Helen Gilbert). Gillespie assigns Kildare to pose as an old friend of the family in order to observe Nancy. At the same time, Gillespie borrows an airplane to fly Kildare around the country collecting blood samples for Gillespie to examine around the clock.

When Gillespie collapses from exhaustion, Kildare forces the cranky old doctor to take a rest as a patient and persuades Blair head of hospital Dr. Carew (Walter Kingsford) to assign him to work full-time on the Messenger case. Kildare's move forces Gillespie to put the project on hold, and while the old doctor goes fishing on a much needed vacation, Kildare, still hiding his identity as a doctor, begins to investigate the causes of Nancy's symptoms. He learns that Nancy's symptoms began to appear when she feared she had lost the love of her fiance.

While talking with Nora (Sara Haden), the family housekeeper, Kildare learns that Nancy suffers blinding headaches. Nora, who disdains all doctors because of their inability to help Nancy's mother, has convinced Nancy that she is suffering from the same type of brain tumor that killed her mother. Nora takes Nancy to see a nature healer named John Xerxes Archley (Grant Mitchell), which prompts Kildare to admit that he is a doctor and dispute Archley's diagnosis of a "brain tumor" but alienates him from the family. With the help of ambulance driver Joe Wayman (Nat Pendleton) and his trusty monkey wrench, Kildare gets access to Nancy, who now has hysterical blindness.

Kildare tries to consult with the vacationing Gillespie over the girl's symptoms but is rebuffed. Gillespie returns to Blair ostensibly to give a lecture to the interns on treating psychosomatic symptoms. Following Gillespie's advice, Kildare pretends to operate on Nancy's eyes and arranges for the first person she sees afterwards to be her fiance, thus curing her hysterical blindness. Meanwhile, Gillespie returns from his vacation revived, and realizing that Kildare quit the experiment only out of concern for his health, reconciles with his assistant. Together they embark again on their research into curing pneumonia.

Cast

{{Cast listing|
  • Lew Ayres as Dr. James "Jimmy" Kildare
  • Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
  • Lionel Atwill as Paul Messenger
  • Helen Gilbert as Nancy Messenger
  • Nat Pendleton as Joe Wayman
  • Laraine Day as Nurse Mary Lamont
  • Sara Haden as Nora
  • Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Stephen Kildare
  • Emma Dunn as Mrs. Martha Kildare
  • Walter Kingsford as Dr. S.J. Carew
  • Grant Mitchell as John Xerxes Archley
  • Alma Kruger as Head Nurse Molly Byrd
  • Robert Kent as Charles Herron
  • Marie Blake as Sally, Telephone Operator
  • Martha O'Driscoll as Mrs. Roberts
  • Nell Craig as Nurse "Nosey" Parker
  • George Reed as Conover
  • Frank Orth as Mike Sullivan
  • Alec Craig as Telephone repair man
  • Emory Parnell as Policeman on Gaylore Ave.

}}

Censorship

The censors at the Hays Office requested changes to the script’s discussions of pregnancy before they would approve it for production. One of the major issues they had with the script was that it explicitly included dialogue about the potential dangers of childbirth.[2]

See also

  • Lionel Barrymore filmography

References

1. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031909/fullcredits#cast
2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Kirby|first=David A.|author-link=David A. Kirby|date=September 2017|title=Regulating cinematic stories about reproduction: pregnancy, childbirth, abortion and movie censorship in the US, 1930–1958|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/regulating-cinematic-stories-about-reproduction-pregnancy-childbirth-abortion-and-movie-censorship-in-the-us-19301958/2A1AA5620E20D7E46CE14837999896D2|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|language=en|volume=50|issue=3|pages=451–472|doi=10.1017/S0007087417000814|issn=0007-0874|via=}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0031909}}
  • {{amg movie|109301}}
  • {{tcmdb title|id=405}}
  • {{AFI film|id=8086|title=The Secret of Dr. Kildare}}
  • {{Internet Archive film|id=Secret_of_Doctor_Kildare_1939_2138|name=The Secret of Dr. Kildare}}
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