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...very soon now the baby will be here. And before long we can both go out in the back yard and hide behind that 8-ft. fence Oliva has had built in order that we may all have at least a little backyard privacy...
...clock one morning last week the world's most amazing mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, was safely and uneventfully delivered of her twelfth child, her fourth son. On the previous afternoon she received a journalist with reluctance saying: "Having a child is such a personal, such a sacred thing. That's why I can hardly bear to talk for publication about the event before it happens. That's why I have been a shut-in for so long. You have been here five weeks, and you have seen for yourself how tourist cars lined the driveway between...
...Country Doctor (Twentieth Century-Fox). From the moment that Mrs. Oliva Dionne astounded the world on May 28, 1934 by giving birth to quintuplets, it was apparent that the children, if they lived, were destined for a career in the cinema. Already seasoned performers in shorts and newsreels, they make their debut as feature stars in The Country Doctor, which last week opened simultaneously in 326 U. S. and Canadian theatres. The story, suggested by Reporter Charles Blake of the Chicago American, is built around a character representing a romantic conception of the Quintuplets' Dr. Allan Dafoe. Twentieth Century...
...swirling snowstorm, a number of cinema folk stepped off a train one day last week in Callander. Ont. to begin location work on a picture involving Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and the five smallest daughters of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. From the Twentieth Century-Fox lot in Hollywood Producer Darryl Zanuck had sent 22 technicians and cameramen, Director Henry King, Actor Jean Hersholt, Actress Dorothy Peterson, Writers Sonya Levien and Charles Blake...
...their frame house 100 yards away from the Dafoe Hospital, Oliva and Elzire Dionne sulked, gazed glumly at a contract, as yet unsigned, by which they would get $700 in return for permission to let professional actors impersonate them. "I figured $700 wasn't enough," said the father of the Quintuplets...