Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)

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By CAROL CRAIG A great big basket is about to be left on the world's doorstep, and the world will adopt all five of the baby stars in it. They are the five famous Dionne sisters of Callander, Ontario, stars of the picture, The Country Doctor. We're taking the photographer's word for it that, left to right, they are Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Annette and Yvonne (standing). Not all of the moviemakers could tell them apart! World Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, Inc. a Five-Star Picture! {The Quints Are in It) Here is the full story of the filming of one movie that the whole world wants to see — one movie that has no equal! CAN you think of any one picture in the history of the movies that every person in the civilized world has wanted to see? Well, one is coming to your theatre soon ! A picture with five stars, all of whom will receive equal billing. A picture called The Country Doctor — starring the Dionne Quintuplets of Callander, Ontario, Canada. They were not taken to Hollywood to appear in the picture. Hollywood was taken to them. Ever since the Miracle of May 28, 1934, when five little girls were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, a FrenchCanadian couple who lived in Northern Ontario, the interest of the world in these five mites of humanity has been intense and unabated. In fact, it has constantly increased. Here has been real-life drama — drama such as the world has never seen before. For never before have quintuplets survived for even as long as one hour. At firs\, as dav succeeded dav and the babies still breathed. the newspaper readers of the world discovered a new kind of suspense. Could Dr. Da foe, the country doctor who had brought them into the world, do what no physician had accomplished before? Could he keep all five of these tiny pulses beating? As week succeeded week, and month followed month, and the babies grew and thrived, the world gave this kindly, commonsense, country doctor the applause of awe. It clamored for more and more pictures of Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne. Every new photograph of them made home editions of newspapers sell like extras. Every new brief newsreel of them made theatres hang out the "Standing Room Only" signs. People couldn't see enough of the Dionne quintuplets. They wanted more! Maybe they didn't know it then, but they know it now — they wanted to see a full-length motion picture of the quintuplets, a picture dramatically showing their daily life. And now it is on the way. Hollywood has been to Callander, Ontario. And the story of that trip [Continued on page 78 ) 31