


Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943), Three Men in White (1944), Between Two Women (1945), and Dark Delusion (1947).Īyres began his service as a First Aid Instructor before requesting an overseas assignment (which required a cut in rank). Gillespie's New Assistant (both 1942), Dr.

However, a review showed that Ayres had previously applied for A-O-1 status which would allow him to serve as a non-combatant medic. Although he may have used his celebrity to find a non-combat assignment, he listed as a conscientious objector and was listed as 4E status. Īs production on Victory was wrapping, Lew Ayres' draft number came up. Kildare's Wedding Day in 1941, and 1942's Dr.
OLD TIME DOCTOR SERIES
The film series continued with 1939's Calling Dr. The first time Ayers and Barrymore appeared on the radio together was on the Good News of 1939 program broadcast on October 13, 1938, pitching Young Dr. Kildare in 1938, starring Lew Ayres in the title role and featuring Lionel Barrymore as his mentor, Dr. The MGM film series began with the release of Young Dr. Kildare series, and Brand obligingly retooled the character into a more idealistic diagnostician. MGM bought the rights to what would become the Dr. Paramount released a film based on the story starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in 1937. In keeping with Brand's more harrowing stories, Kildare first appears in Interns Can't Take Money (1936), a story of an idealist young surgeon who winds up chasing gangsters. Kildare on a college friend, New York surgeon Dr. Primarily a writer of Western and pirate fiction, Brand claimed to have based Dr. Before that, the good doctor had been a pulp-crime fiction character created by Max Brand (the nom de plume used by Frederick Schiller Faust). Kildare, who came to the airwaves after appearing in nine films from a fifteen-film MGM series. The most recognizable medico from the Golden Age of Radio is Dr. Like any other Warrior, no sacrifice is too great for a crusading young doctor to make to win the struggle over disease (although it is also true that it is rare to find a doctor who isn't rich). Warriors wearing white uniforms, these medical miracle workers daily face down one of mankind's oldest and most persistent foes, disease. There are few heroic characters as compelling conscientious young doctors.
