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Director:
Harold S. Bucquet
Writers:
Lawrence P. Bachmann (story) and
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Release Date:
2 May 1941 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A Decent Entry In The Series more (5 total)

Cast

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Lew Ayres ... Dr. James Kildare

Lionel Barrymore ... Dr. Leonard Gillespie
Laraine Day ... Nurse Mary Lamont
Bonita Granville ... Frances Marlowe
Alma Kruger ... Molly Byrd

Red Skelton ... Vernon Briggs
Paul Stanton ... Mr. Reynolds
Diana Lewis ... Fay Lennox
Walter Kingsford ... Dr. Walter Carew
Nell Craig ... Nurse Parker
Tom Conway ... Mr. Channing
Marie Blake ... Sally
Eddie Acuff ... Clifford Genet
George Reed ... Conover (as George H. Reed)
Chick Chandler ... Dan Morton
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
My Life Is Yours (UK)
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Runtime:
78 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Approved (PCA #7234)
Company:
Loew's more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Pat O'Malley is supposed to be in this film as "Onlooker", but he does not appear. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) more
Soundtrack:
Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo (Mad'moiselle from Armentieres) more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
A Decent Entry In The Series, 25 January 2005
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Author: David (Handlinghandel) from NY, NY

I enjoy these movies when they turn up. I never saw the TV series and don't know much about the background of the movie series. They're always entertaining though sometimes shockingly dated and politically incorrect by today's standards. In this one, for example, Lionel Barrymore tells a jury that injured skater Bonita Granville might be a "hopeless cripple" all her life if not operated on again. In another of these movies -- and could this have been acceptable at any point in the past 100 years? Was some of this series tongue-in-cheek? -- Barrymore tells the parents of a disturbed young man, "I'm sorry to tell you that your son is a psycho case." Lew Ayres was a highly appealing actor throughout his career, not least in these movies. Larraine Day has grown on me. Barrymore is a ham but so what? And the supporting casts are always good.

In this one, Red Skelton has a fairly large, supposedly comic, role. He is surely an acquired taste and definitely a taste I never acquired.

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