The Love Doctor

19291929
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1h 1m

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June Collyer, Richard Dix, and Miriam Seegar in The Love Doctor (1929)

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Romance

Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner di... Read allGerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness." Woodbridge, in love with Grace Tyler, a fickle debutante who c... Read allGerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness." Woodbridge, in love with Grace Tyler, a fickle debutante who cannot take him seriously because of her infatuation for Sumner, follows Sumner's instructi... Read all

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Director
- Melville W. Brown
Writers
- Victor Mapes(play "The Boomerang")
- Winchell Smith(play "The Boomerang")
- J. Walter Ruben(adaptation)
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June Collyer and Richard Dix in The Love Doctor (1929)

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Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness." Woodbridge, in love with Grace Tyler, a fickle debutante who cannot take him seriously because of her infatuation for Sumner, follows Sumner's instructions to rest in the country and take quantities of distilled water administered by Virginia Moore, Sumner's nurse. Because Virginia is in love with Sumner she complies, hoping that his weekend visits will give him love sickness. Grace Tyler's arrival, and her insistence that Sumner marry her, complicate matters. The situation is resolved when Sumner admits that love cannot be cured; he marries Virginia and encourages Bud to marry Grace.

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Taglines
- To win at the game of love just try three easy rules. You'll hear them all from America's Prince of Love and Laughter. (Print ad- St. Joseph News-Press,((St.Joseph, Mo.)) 10 October 1929)
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- Comedy
- Romance
Certificate
- Passed
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One of the earliest 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. However,because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised.