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The Dionne quintuplets also appeared in numerous newsreels and a short documentary film called Five Times Five in 1939. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-reel) in 1940. [30] In 1942, they appeared in one of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks Land of the Quintuplets shortly before they were returned to ...
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.
May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy; June 7 - David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and academic (d. 2016) June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d. 2003) June 22 Willie Adams, politician and senator; Nathan Nurgitz, lawyer, judge, and senator (d. 2019) June 24 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer ...
The following events occurred in May 1934: ... The world-famous Dionne quintuplets were born on a farm in Canada near Corbeil, Ontario. May 29, 1934 (Tuesday)
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.
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 ...
Dafoe was the Canadian doctor who delivered the quintuplets on May 28, 1934. According to the pressbook for the film, a company of eighty people from Twentieth Century-Fox arrived in Callander and began filming on August 17, 1936.
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