Five Times Five
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Five Times Five is a 1939 short documentary film
directed by Frank P. Donovan. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1940
for Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
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Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Frank P. Donovan. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1940
12th Academy Awards
The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1939, was held on February 29, 1940, at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bob Hope ....
for Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...
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Cast
- Alexander WoollcottAlexander WoollcottAlexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table....
– Commentary - The Dionne quintupletsDionne quintupletsThe Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature...
(Annette, Cecile, Emile, Yvonne and Marie) - Allan R. Dafoe (as Dr. Roy Dafoe) – Quintuplets' doctor