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The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 1949

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Doctor and the Girl

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director

Curtis Bernhardt

Description

Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.