Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

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1. #001

   M-G-M contract player Laraine Day grew tired of playing "Nurse Mary" and asked that the character be written out of the series. The studio granted her request with a shocking plot twist: about an hour into the film, Mary is running to a pre-wedding event and is killed when a truck hits her. The series continued without Mary (and later without even Dr. Kildare, when star Lew Ayres was drafted during World War II). Day subsequently gave up her M-G-M contract and signed with RKO instead.

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2. #002

   An original piece of music is a key part of the story. In the story, the music was written by Dr. Gillespie's former love. In reality, the music for "Tableau Russe," a symphonic suite, was composed by Lionel Barrymore, who played Dr. Gillespie throughout the Dr. Kildare series. The pleasant music, in place of the familiar Dr. Kildare theme, can be heard in the opening and closing title sequences.

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   While M-G-M used the Andy Hardy films to test newly signed contract players in small roles, the Dr. Kildare series often cast new contract players in supporting roles. The newcomer introduced here is Red Skelton, tasked with providing comic relief in some of this film's somber plot.

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4. #004

   The eighth entry in MGM's long-running and highly popular Dr. Kildare film series has a plot that finally pays off a storyline developed across the previous seven Kildare films: the growing romance between the title character and his assistant/nurse Mary Lamont.

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   Bronislau Kaper, despite being credited for the music, did not contribute to the film's score.

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6. #006

   Many actors whose character names appear in studio records and/or cast call sheets are not seen in the film. These were Fay Holden (Mrs. Bartlett, replaced by Margaret Seddon), Joe Devlin (Clancy), Charles Williams (Pickins), Bill Chaney (Boy on Horse), Billy McClain (Joseph), Chester Clute (Ainsworth Lee), 'Tom Stevenson' (Mr. Richards) and Grace Stafford (Mrs. Richards). The last two appeared in the sequel Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942).

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7. #007

   Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) is an American drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. It is the eighth of a total of nine Dr. Kildare pictures made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. When MGM decided to write rising star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a surprisingly dramatic way. Adding extra interest to this film in the Kildare series, Barrymore composed the music attributed to the character Cornelia Bartlett.

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8. #008

   The film's first television presentation was on Saturday, March 16, 1957, on WBBM (Channel 2) in Chicago, followed by WFIL (Channel 6) on Sunday, March 31, 1957, by New Haven, CT on WNHC (Channel 8) on April 7, 1957, by Norfolk, VA on WTAR (Channel 3) on April 16, 1957, and by Hartford, CT on WHCT (Channel 18) on June 14, 1957; on the West Coast it first aired in Seattle on KING (Channel 5) on November 16, 1957, in Los Angeles on KTTV (Channel 11) on May 30, 1958, and in San Francisco on KGO (Channel 7) on November 1, 1958. It first aired in Minneapolis on KMSP (Channel 9) on March 1, 1961; its first documented broadcast in New York City did not occur until April 16, 1963, on WCBS (Channel 2).

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