Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

John Berry

Writers:

Hugo Butler (screenplay)
Anne Froelich (adaptation)

Release Date:

6 February 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Beautiful Woman | Doctor | Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Veronica Lake	...	Nan Rogers
Sonny Tufts	...	Pug Prentiss
Joan Caulfield	...	Margaretta Howe
Ray Collins	...	Dr. Elijah Howe
Billy De Wolfe	...	Ben Mead
Bill Edwards	...	Elijah Howe, Jr.
Pat Phelan	...	Elbert Riggs
Lillian Gish	...	Miss Susie Slagle
Roman Bohnen	...	Dean Wingate
Morris Carnovsky	...	Dr. Fletcher
Renny McEvoy	...	Clayton Abernathy
Lloyd Bridges	...	Silas Holmes
Michael Sage	...	Irving Asron
Dorothy Adams	...	Mrs. Johnson
E.J. Ballantine	...	Dr. Metz

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #10462)

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Soundtrack:

Little Eliza

Medical Students

This is the film that inspired me to go to medical school...not necessarily to follow a clinical career but certainly got me started. The action focuses on several medical students living in a boarding house run by a spinster, Miss Susie Slagle, the incomparable Lillian Gish. The students include Sonny Tufts, the scion of the Boston Brahmin Tufts (of the same university of the same name) family, in his pre-Hollywood bad boy days, a young Lloyd Bridges, character actor Billy De Wolfe, Pat Phelan and several others of interest only to old movie buffs like myself. It is more a "slice of life" type film and focuses on personal conflicts of the medical students. Tufts is great as the student who gains his confidence during an epidemic and it's a delight to see Ray Collins in a pre-Tragg role and the beautiful Joan Caufield. No video, no DVD listed, so watch for this one on the late show.