Dr. Kildare Goes Home
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home is a 1940 drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...

, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

 and Laraine Day
Laraine Day
Laraine Day was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.-Career:Born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, to an affluent Mormon family, she later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players...

. This was the second in a series of nine Dr. Kildare, from 1938-1942 starring Lew Ayres as Dr, Kildare.

Plot summary

Doctor James Kildare (Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...

), just appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

), is forced to return to his hometown when his general-practitioner father (Samuel S. Hinds
Samuel S. Hinds
Samuel Southey Hinds was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for playing Peter Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life and for his part in You Can't Take It With You , both films by Frank Capra...

) collapses from overwork.

Cast

  • Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...

     as Dr. James Kildare
  • Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

     as Dr. Leonard Gillespie
  • Laraine Day
    Laraine Day
    Laraine Day was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.-Career:Born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, to an affluent Mormon family, she later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players...

     as Mary Lamont
  • Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel Southey Hinds was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for playing Peter Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life and for his part in You Can't Take It With You , both films by Frank Capra...

     as Dr. Stephen Kildare
  • Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart
    Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:...

     as George Winslow
  • John Shelton as Dr. Davidson
  • Nat Pendleton
    Nat Pendleton
    Nathaniel Greene "Nat" Pendleton was an American Olympic wrestler and film actor.-Early life:Pendleton was born in Davenport, Iowa to Adelaide E. and Nathaniel G. Pendleton. He studied at Columbia University where he began his wrestling career. He was twice Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling...

     as Wayman
  • Emma Dunn
    Emma Dunn
    Emma Dunn was an English-born American film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1914 and 1948....

     as Mrs. Martha Kildare
  • Alma Kruger
    Alma Kruger
    -Career:Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kruger had a long career on stage before appearing in films. From 1907 to 1935, she starred in many theatre plays on Broadway, mostly in Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet , Twelfth Night , Taming of the Shrew , and The Merchant of Venice .She appeared in...

     as Molly Byrd
  • Walter Kingsford
    Walter Kingsford
    Walter Kingsford was a British stage, film and television actor born in Redhill, Surrey, England. He was born Walter Pearce and had several sisters...

     as Dr. Walter Carew
  • Nell Craig as Nurse Parker
  • Cliff Danielson as Dr. Jordan
  • Henry Wadsworth as Dr. Collins
  • Tom Collins
    Tom Collins
    The Tom Collins is a type of Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by "the father of American mixology" Jerry Thomas, this "Gin and Sparkling Lemonade" drink typically is served in a Collins glass over ice.-History:In 1874,...

     as Dr. Joiner
  • George Reed
    George Reed
    George Robert Reed, CM is a former American college football and Canadian Football League player. Reed, along with Mike Pringle and Johnny Bright, is one of the players most often mentioned as being the greatest running back in CFL history...

     as Conover (as George H. Reed)

Production

MGM produced nine Dr. Kildare movies:
  • Dr. Kildare's Victory
    Dr. Kildare's Victory
    Dr. Kildare's Victory is a 1942 film directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It stars Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore.-Cast:*Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare*Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Gillespie*Ann Ayars as Cynthia Cookie Charles...

     (1942) Played by Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...

     (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare)
  • Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) Played by Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel Southey Hinds was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for playing Peter Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life and for his part in You Can't Take It With You , both films by Frank Capra...

     (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) / Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare)
  • The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Played by Lew Ayres
  • Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940) Played by Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare)
  • Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Played by Lew Ayres / Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare)
  • Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
    Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
    - Cast :*Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare*Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Gillespie*Laraine Day as Nurse Mary Lamont*Shepperd Strudwick as Dr. Gregory 'Greg' Lane*Samuel S. Hinds as Dr. Stephen Kildare*Emma Dunn as Mrs. Martha Kildare...

     (1940) Played by Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) / Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare)
  • The Secret of Dr. Kildare
    The Secret of Dr. Kildare
    - Cast :*Lew Ayres as Dr. James "Jimmy" Kildare*Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie*Lionel Atwill as Paul Messenger*Helen Gilbert as Nancy Messenger*Nat Pendleton as Joe Wayman*Laraine Day as Nurse Mary Lamont*Sara Haden as Nora...

     (1939) Played by Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) / Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare)
  • Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) Played by Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare)
  • Young Dr. Kildare
    Young Dr. Kildare
    Young Dr. Kildare is a 1938 film starring Lew Ayres as an idealistic but somewhat immature young medical doctor, who benefits greatly from the wise counsel of his mentor, Dr. Gillespie, a seasoned older physician. This was the second of a total of ten Dr...

    (1938) Played by Lew Ayres / Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare)
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