10 Facts About Dr Kildare

1.

Dr James Dr Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand.

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2.

Character of Dr Kildare first appeared on film in the 1937 Paramount film, Internes Can't Take Money, based on Max Brand's previously published short story of the same name and starring Joel McCrea as Dr Kildare.

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3.

In 1938, MGM entered into a deal with author Faust to acquire the rights to Dr Kildare and have Faust work with MGM on developing stories for a film series.

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4.

Seven Dr Kildare films were subsequently made by MGM based on stories originally written by Faust.

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5.

Dr Kildare simply vanished from the series, without explanation, and for Calling Dr Gillespie the character of a young doctor mentored by the experienced Dr Gillespie was played by Philip Dorn .

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6.

Previously, some of the individual Dr Kildare films had been released individually on DVD through distributors such as Alpha Video, Roan Archival Group, FilmRise and Genius Entertainment.

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7.

The medical information presented was up to date for its time, and sometimes taken from real life; for example, an episode in which Dr Kildare is forced to perform an emergency appendectomy on himself was based on a news story.

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8.

Consequently, despite the show's popularity with audiences, no new episodes of The Story of Dr Kildare were produced after 1951, although rebroadcasts of old episodes continued to air in syndication for several more years.

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9.

The first two seasons told the story of Dr James Dr Kildare, working in a fictional large metropolitan hospital while trying to learn his profession, deal with his patients' problems, and earn the respect of the senior Dr Leonard Gillespie .

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10.

In 1972, MGM Television created a short-lived syndicated drama series called Young Dr Kildare, starring Mark Jenkins as Dr James Kildare and Gary Merrill as Dr Leonard Gillespie.

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