Dr. Kildare

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Dr. James Kildare is the name of a fictional American doctor devised by Frederick Schiller Faust . Originally created for short stories, Dr. Kildare as the eponymous main character for a US film series (1938-42), a US radio play series (1950/51), a comic series (1962-66), as well as for two television series , the first 1961-66 with Richard Chamberlain in the lead role and the second in 1972 under the title Young Dr. Kildare with Mark Jenkins in the title role, adapted.

Content and background

In all of the series, Kildare was a very young doctor at a hospital who, with the help of his mentor, Dr. Gillespie works as a general practitioner his medical miracles and overcomes other crises in everyday hospital life. The series deals almost exclusively with Kildare's professional life; a private life or family is not examined. A major issue was the conflict with the hospital bureaucracy under Dr. Carough , the antagonist of the two doctors. Faust developed the character Kildare based on the model and some anecdotes from his good friend, the New York star surgeon and rugby Olympic champion George Fish . In contrast to competing doctor series, the character of Kildare was always portrayed compassionately, politely and rather feminine.

Movies

In 1937 Paramount released the first film with Dr. Kildare. In Interns Can't Take Money , the doctor was portrayed by Joel McCrea . However, this film is more of a crime film than a medical drama.

In 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer began a series of films about Dr. Kildare, which was continued in a total of 15 parts until 1947. Lew Ayres played the Dr. Kildare. Ayres was joined by veteran actor Lionel Barrymore as an experienced chief physician and mentor Dr. Gillespie; Laraine Day as a nurse and Kildare's lover, Mary Lamont; Samuel S. Hinds and Emma Dunn as Dr. Kildare's parents; Walter Kingsford as a strict doctor Dr. Walter Carew; Nat Pendleton as ambulance driver Joe Wayman and Alma Kruger as head nurse Molly Byrd. After nine films, Dr. Kildare was removed from the series, and the films focused on Dr. Gillespie. The reason was Ayres' then openly criticized conscientious objection in World War II with subsequent service as a medic in East Asia, so that he was released from the contract at MGM. He was replaced by Van Johnson and Keye Luke , who now stood by Barrymore as young doctors.

Eight of the films were in the summer of 1991 by the ARD in the first broadcast as a series and since then several times by TM3 repeated and the third programs.

Radio series

After the end of the film series, it was decided in the late 1940s that the two characters Dr. Kildare and Dr. To reuse Gillespie in a radio play series. Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore , who had already played the roles in individual films in the series, were hired as spokespersons for the two roles . The series was produced in California in 1949 in 30-minute episodes, but aired in New York in 1950 and 1952 for one season each.

TV series "Dr. Kildare "

NBC decided in the late 1950s to revisit the story as a television series with Richard Chamberlain in the lead role; it ran from 1961 to 1966, with the exception of the last year, when the audience collapsed, the series was among the top 10 in the US market and made Chamberlain a teen idol. The series was nominated five times for the Emmy and twice for the Golden Globe , but only Chamberlain was awarded as Best TV Star with the Golden Globe for the 1963 . The series was so successful that it drew a large amount of merchandise , from toys to trading cards to his hit comic series (1962-66).

The series had 192 episodes, of which the first 133 had a running time of 45 minutes and were self-contained in terms of content. For the last season, the individual episodes were shortened to 25 minutes, but story arcs were extended to up to seven episodes. In Germany, some episodes of the 1968/69 series were broadcast on ARD's evening program, followed by the broadcast of 57 episodes, some of them new and some newly dubbed, on TV.München in 1994/95 . This version has since been repeated several times on DF1 and Premiere pay TV .

TV series "Young Dr. Kildare "

In 1972 the series with Mark Jenkins as Kildare and Gary Merrill as Dr. To relaunch Gillespie , but that failed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Midge Decter: Who killed Dr. Kildare , In: T. William Boxx and Gary M. Quinlivan (Her.): Culture in Crisis and the Renewal of Civil Life , Rowman & Littlefield 1996, ISBN 0-8476-8288-9 , pp. 49 f., 52 f .
  2. ^ A b John Dunning: On the air: the encyclopedia of old-time radio. , Oxford University Press 1998, ISBN 0-19-507678-8 , pp. 205 f.
  3. ↑ Alex McNeil: Total Television: Revised Edition , 4th Edition, Penguin 1996, ISBN 0-14-024916-8 , p. 225.
  4. ↑ a b Ann B. Shteir, Bernard V. Lightman: Figuring it out: science, gender, and visual culture , University Press of New England in 2006, ISBN 1-58465-603-4 , S. 328th
  5. ^ Hans J. Wollstein: Interns Can't Take Money. In: Allmovie . Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Entry on film series Dr. Kildare (1938-47). (No longer available online.) In: Serienlexikon. Kabel eins , 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kabeleins.de  
  7. ↑ Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones: Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama , Intellect Books 2002, ISBN 1-84150-050-X , p. 52.
  8. ↑ Awards for “Dr. Kildare ”(1961). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved November 24, 2009 .
  9. ↑ a b Entry on series Dr. Kildare (1961-66). (No longer available online.) In: Serienlexikon. Kabel eins , 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kabeleins.de  
  10. ↑ Stephanie D'heil: Dr. Kildare . Retrieved August 30, 2009 .