The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)

Movie Details

Original Title The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 1.6

Cast

Lew Ayres

Dr. James Kildare

Popularity: 0.9

Lionel Barrymore

Dr. Leonard Gillespie

Popularity: 0.7

Lionel Atwill

Paul Messenger

Popularity: 0.5

Helen Gilbert

Nancy Messenger

Popularity: 1.0

Nat Pendleton

Joe Wayman

Popularity: 1.0

Laraine Day

Nurse Mary Lamont

Popularity: 0.5

Sara Haden

Nora

Popularity: 4.5

Samuel S. Hinds

Dr. Stephen Kildare

Popularity: 0.3

Emma Dunn

Mrs. Martha Kildare

Popularity: 1.3

Walter Kingsford

Dr. S.J. Carew

Popularity: 1.6

Grant Mitchell

John Xerxes Archley

Popularity: 1.1

Alma Kruger

Head Nurse Molly Byrd

Popularity: 0.3

Key Crew

Director Harold S. Bucquet

Screenplay Harry Ruskin, Willis Goldbeck

Music David Snell

Editor Frank E. Hull

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Keywords

dr. kildare

Reviews from TMDB

barrymost 7/10

Sep 30, 2019

The third film in MGM's long-running Doctor Kildare series actually isn't half bad. It's funny, it's entertaining, it's endearing, and it's also utterly ridiculous, but that goes for the entire 15-film series when you think about it. As usual, the credibility of the plot takes a back seat to the a ... Read more

CinemaSerf 5/10

Jun 22, 2022

Lionel Barrymore ("Dr. Gillespie") and Lew Ayres ("Dr. Kildare") are teacher and pupil in this competent medical drama. The former is working himself too hard trying to get to the root causes - and therefore to develop a treatment for - pneumonia. The latter is working with the daughter of one of Am ... Read more