Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of ...
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Title: The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
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| Glenn Ford | ... | Dr. Michael Corday | |
| Charles Coburn | ... | Dr. John Corday | |
| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Fabienne | |
| Janet Leigh | ... | Evelyn | |
| Bruce Bennett | ... | Dr. Alfred Norton | |
| Warner Anderson | ... | Dr. George Esmond | |
| Basil Ruysdael | ... | Dr. Francis I. Garard | |
| Nancy Reagan | ... | Mariette (as Nancy Davis) | |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Dr. Harvey L. Kenmore | |
| Lisa Golm | ... | Hetty | |
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Joanne De Bergh | ... | Child's Mother |
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Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York. The death of a family member brings most of the family together. A couple of stronger plot incidents than usual for a 1940s film---unwed-pregnancy and botched abortion among them. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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There Are Many Beautiful Women in the Life of a Handsome Young Doctor. This is the Strange Love Story of One of Them!Parents Guide:
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Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon: Remember, it's only platonic... I looked it up.
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This was Glenn Ford's first movie for MGM. See more »Goofs
When Taffy has her chest x-ray taken, the x-ray machine is way too far away from her to produce a useful image. See more »Quotes
[Michael grabs Taffy, kisses her passionately and then they embrace]Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon: Remember, it's only platonic... I looked it up.
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Country:
USARelease Date:
29 September 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bodies and Souls See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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$1,055,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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I just wanted to say that the above reviewer is a bit misinformed regarding the history of films about physicians, particularly in the '30s. There was no shortage of movies with doctors as the central character in the early sound era, and some of them are "Men in White," "Internes Can't Take Money," "The Citadel," "Strange Interlude," "Symphony of Six Million," "Arrowsmith," "Yellow Jack," "Doctor X" "The Story of Louis Pasteur," just to name a few off the top of my head, without doing any research. Paramount's "Internes Can't Take Money," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, was the first movie to feature the character of Dr. James Kildare, created by author Max Brand. I'm sure that the studio's executives rued the fact that they didn't have the foresight to feature the sympathetic young doctor in a series, which is what M-G-M did, starring Lew Ayres as the compassionate and crusading Dr. Jimmy Kildare. That series, by the way, started in the '30s with "Young Dr. Kildare" in 1938, followed by "Calling Dr. Kildare" and "The Secret of Dr. Kildare" in 1939. So, you see, there were quite a few doctors gracing movie screens throughout the 1930s.