Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magnificent Obsession" follows the same story of a man becoming a doctor in order to save the life of the girl he loves. Robert Taylor is the man and Irene Dunne the girl but unfortunately Taylor's acting does not approach he mature work of his leading lady who holds the spotlight. Charles Butterworth and Henry Armetta add their typical bits of humor as newly-wed and valet respectively. It is a generally mediocre piece but entertaining, nevertheless...
...gallery gasped, the redoubtable Doctor, using his famed shot-put form, flung a bag containing 150 inflated Russian roubles in the general direction of the Newell Boat House. The bag floated gently upward over the tree tops, closely pursued by two editors of the Harvard Advocate, undergraduate literary publication...
Colleagues of the San Francisco doctor, out of consideration for him and his wife, kept their identities secret. In consequence of that secrecy, dreadful rumor swiftly spread across the country that trichinosis was rife throughout California. In actual fact, however, the doctor and his wife were last week the only known victims of trichinosis in the State...
...assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services, worked heroically to stem the epidemic. In the spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson...
...Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history, no less than that of France, Mexico and Britain, contains...