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Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny said the fictional Ouellet quintuplets in her book How The Light Gets In "were certainly inspired by the Dionne girls". [ 44 ] In the 1935 film A Night at the Opera , Chico makes an oblique reference to the quintuplets, when he says that "duplicates" are "those five kids up in Canada".
In The Country Doctor (1936), a movie starring the quints, Jean Hersholt portrayed Dr. John Luke, a character based on Dafoe, and there were two sequels: Reunion (1936) and Five of a Kind (1938). When Dafoe blocked the idea of continuing the series, Hersholt created Dr. Christian , which had a long run on radio.
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Even though they have no money her husband, Oliva, races to get a doctor. Early on the morning of May 28, 1934 she gives birth to five daughters, the famous Dionne Quintuplets. The story soon develops into a media frenzy. Radio personality Helena Reid arrives on the scene. Oliva and the other children leave in order to save the quints from ...
English: This handkerchief was produced as a souvenir of the Canadian Dionne Quintuplets, five sisters born in Ontario, Canada, in 1934. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy, and were made wards of the state under the Dionne Quintuplets Guardianship Act of 1935.
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May 9, 2024; Montclair, NJ, United States; Quintuplets (from left, top row) Marcus Povolo, Ashley Povolo, Ludovico Povolo, (from left, lower level) Michael Povolo and Victoria Povolo at Montclair ...
The film was released on October 14, 1938, by 20th Century Fox. [1] [2] The film follows the escalating rivalry between radio journalists Duke Lester (Romero) and Christine Nelson (Trevor) that culminates in a competition to cover the exploits of the famous Canadian quintuplets, the Wyatts, played by The Dionne Quintuplets. [3]