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

Land of the Quintuplets Trailers

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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

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.

0.0

The Dionne Quintuplets

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6.0

The Country Doctor

Mar 12, 1936

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

0.0

Reunion

Nov 20, 1936

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5.6

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5.5

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