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TITLE Dr. Kildare Series

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DISABILITY General Limb Wheelchair

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 76

GENRE Drama series

DIRECTOR Harold S. Bucquet

CAST Lew Ayres

Lionel Barrymore

Laraine Day

Shepperd Strudwick

Samuel S. Hinds

Emma Dunn

NOTES B/W.

The series ran from 1938 to 1947 Lionel Barrymore (Dr.

Gillespie) was in a wheelchair throughout the series.

Barrymore himself was in a wheelchair because of arthritis

and a leg injury.

The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939): A woman has

psychosomatic blindness

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940): Includes treatment of

mental illness including shock therapy.

Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940): Kildare is about to get married

when his fiancee's brother is diagnosed with epilepsy.

 


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