Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare
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Calling Dr. Kildare: Directed by Harold S. Bucquet. With Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton. Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic.
Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The second of MGM's series of Kildare films, it introduces Laraine Day as nurse Mary Lamont, the love of Kildare's life.
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, the crusty senior physician at New York's Blair General Hospital, decides to teach his pupil, intern James Kildare, a lesson about dealing with the emotional causes of his patients' ills.
Kildare treats and hides the wounded man, whom he learns is a murder suspect. Smitten by the victim's attractive sister, Rosalie (Lana Turner), Kildare offers to help...
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Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The second of their series of Kildare films, it introduces Laraine Day as nurse Mary Lamont, the love of Kildare's life.
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound.
