The Secret of Dr. Kildare

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The Secret of Dr. Kildare is a 1939 American film directed by Harold S. Bucquet. This was the fourth of a total of ten Dr. Kildare pictures, Lew Ayres starred in the last nine.

Plot summary

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) is seeking a permanent cure for pneumonia with a Sulfa drug, Sulfapyridine, and must ask Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) for assistance when his cancer tires him out and eventually collapses him. Dr. Gillespie recovers, while Dr. Kildare continues working on the pneumonia cure and the case of a woman, Nancy Messenger (Helen Gilbert) suffering from psychosomatic blindness.

Cast

Lew Ayres as Dr. James "Jimmy" Kildare
Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
Lionel Atwill as Paul Messenger
Helen Gilbert as Nancy Messenger
Nat Pendleton as Joe Wayman
Laraine Day as Nurse Mary Lamont
Sara Haden as Nora
Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Stephen Kildare
Emma Dunn as Mrs. Martha Kildare
Walter Kingsford as Dr. S.J. Carew
Grant Mitchell as John Xerxes Archley
Alma Kruger as Head Nurse Molly Byrd
Robert Kent as Charles Herron
Marie Blake as Sally, Telephone Operator
Martha O'Driscoll as Mrs. Roberts
Nell Craig as Nurse "Nosey" Parker
George Reed as Conover
Frank Orth as Mike Sullivan
Alec Craig as Telephone repair man

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Secret of Dr. Kildare Information

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