The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
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Synopsis of The Doctor and the Girl
Glenn Ford first appeared under the MGM banner in The Doctor and the Girl. Ford stars as Dr. Michael Corday, scion of a highly respected family of physicians. When he marries one of his patients, shopgirl Evelyn Heldon (Janet Leigh), Corday is thrown out of his house by his tradition-bound father (Charles Coburn). Denied a posh Park Avenue practice, Corday becomes a selflessly dedicated general practitioner, while his rebellious sister Fabienne (Gloria de Haven) likewise leaves home and hearth in favor of Greenwich Village bohemianism. Father and son are tearfully reconciled when Fabienne dies as the result of a botched abortion (though her operation is never so identified). Doctor and the Girl is a toned-down, telescoped adaptation of Maxence van der Meersh's best-selling novel Bodies and Souls. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Doctor and the Girl
- Glenn Ford - Dr. Michael Corday
- Janet Leigh - Evelyn Heldon
- Warner Anderson - Dr. George Esmond
- Nancy Davis - Mariette
- Lisa Golm - Hetty
- Gloria de Haven - Fabienne Corday
- Bruce Bennett - Dr. Alfred Norton
- Basil Ruysdael - Dr. Francis I. Garard
- Arthur Franz - Dr. Harvey L. Kenmore
- Charles Coburn - Dr. John Corday
- Director(s):
- Curtis Bernhardt
- Writer(s):
- Theodore Reeves
- Producer(s):
- Pandro S. Berman
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