Land of the Quintuplets

Mar 14, 1942

0h 9m

★ 6.0

Overview

This James A. FitzPatrick TravelTalks short visits Callander, the Ontario, Canada hometown of the world-famous Dionne Quintuplets, where we meet the five girls and the doctor who delivered them, and take a look about the town.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

James A. FitzPatrick

Herself, a Dionne Quintuplet

Yvonne Dionne

Herself, a Dionne Quintuplet

Annette Dionne

Herself, a Dionne Quintuplet

Cécile Dionne

Herself, a Dionne Quintuplet

Émilie Dionne

Herself, a Dionne Quintuplet

Marie Dionne

Himself, the Dionne Quintuplets' Doctor

Allan Roy Dafoe

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.

7.0

Five Times Five

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Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are their doctor-and-mentor Roy Dafoe; a priest and two nurses; radio's "Town Crier" Alexander Woollcott; and RKO-Newsreel cameraman Harry Smith.

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Reunion

Nov 20, 1936

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Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

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Aug 15, 1936

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