Jean Hersholt

Yvonne Dionne

Annette Dionne

Cécile Dionne

Émilie Dionne

Marie Dionne

June Lang

Slim Summerville

Michael Whalen

Dorothy Peterson

Robert Barrat

Jane Darwell

John Qualen

Frank Reicher

Montagu Love

David Torrence

George Chandler

Helen Jerome Eddy

Aileen Carlyle

George Meeker

J. Anthony Hughes

William Benedict

Stanley Blystone

Sven Hugo Borg

Harry C. Bradley

Richard Carlyle

Horace B. Carpenter

Mary Carr

William Conlon

Harry Cording

Gino Corrado

Sidney D'Albrook

John Dilson

James Dime

Margaret Fielding

Jeanne Hart

Harry Harvey

Payne B. Johnson

Tom Kennedy

Claude King

Wilfred Lucas

Margaret Mann

Tom McGuire

Paul McVey

Edward McWade

William H. O'Brien

Dillon Ober

Garry Owen

Thomas Pogue

Patricia Reel

Kane Richmond

Florence Roberts

Joe Sawyer

Phillips Smalley

Marvin Stephens

Harry Strang

Monte Vandergrift

Delmar Watson

Cecil Weston

Charles C. Wilson

Harry Wilson

Henry King

Sonya Levien

Charles E. Blake

John F. Seitz

Daniel B. Clark

Drama

The Country Doctor

20th Century Fox

United States of America

The first of three films with the Fab Five, this also launched a series for Hersholt, who plays the wise, dedicated doctor. As ‘Dr. Christian’ he would become a welcome figure, dispensing comforting wisdom to those in need. The running time is filled out by an uncompelling subplot about reckless aviator Whalen’s wooing of Lang, to the chagrin of gruff father, Barrat. Director King was an old hand at depicting idyllic scenes of hard country life, so handles the atmosphere expertly. The Quints arrive eventually for some candid scenes of their early domestic life.  Unashamedly sentimental, this wowed audiences when released, it does show some of the hysterical carnival-like atmosphere that the births spawned as reporters, sightseers and religious figures convened on the little shack in the woods, hoping for a glimpse of children.

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