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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".
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]
This was the second film featuring the Dionne Quintuplets. Their first film, The Country Doctor, a fictional account of their birth, was released earlier in 1936. The screen credits note that "Scenes of the Dionne Quintuplets were photographed at Callander, Ontario under the technical supervision of Dr. Allan R. Dafoe". Dr.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1913: Battle of the Long Sault: Frank Crane: Frank Crane: Short drama: Made with the Kanehnawaga First Nations [1]: 1914: Evangeline
Q-Bec My Love: Un succès commercial, ou Q-bec My Love: Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Red: Red: Gilles Carle: A Ridiculous Kind of Country: Un pays sans bon sens! Pierre Perrault: Two Women in Gold: Deux femmes en or: Claude Fournier [30] 1971: The Christmas Martian: Le martien de Noël: Bernard Gosselin: The Great Ordinary Movie: Le Grand film ...
The Gaither quintuplets (born 3 August 1983, in Indianapolis, Indiana) were the first surviving African-American quintuplets and were one of only three naturally-conceived American sets in 1983. [47] [48] [49] The Al-Ghamdi quintuplets (born 2 February 1988, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) were the first set to be born in Saudi Arabia. The 5 boys were ...
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 ...
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.