Today’s Find: John Ford’s 1936 film “The Prisoner of Shark Island” about Maryland physician Samuel Mudd who was imprisoned for treating Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth tinyurl.com/4v6m4cpb & tinyurl.com/yckecd28 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
1938 March 1: This film from Republic Pictures was released tinyurl.com/mbz2bql Based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Louis Berg #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case” a 1940 crime drama with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore & Larraine Day. Fifth of the ten Kildare films tinyurl.com/5apwd6zv Available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/2p8apvpa #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
1969 Feb 2: Actor Boris Karloff died. In “Corridors of Blood” [1958] he played Thomas Bolton, a 19th century doctor in search of surgical pain relief imdb.to/1a8OD0L & tinyurl.com/y82pk2p5 Film released Dec 1958 in the UK, 1962 in the US #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “You Belong to Me” a 1941 film with Barbara Stanwyck as a female physician & Henry Fonda as her millionaire playboy patient and then husband tinyurl.com/44997en3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
His psychiatrist is Dr. Ann Lorrison tinyurl.com/yxak66l5 Robert Taylor & Audrey Totter play Kenet & Lorrison. More on that “narcosynthesis” at tinyurl.com/y4auhabz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Behind the Mask” 1958 British medical drama; Vanessa Redgrave’s first film role tinyurl.com/3nn2vdns Based on John Rowan Wilson’s 1955 novel “The Pack”. Includes busy surgeon, authentic heart surgery footage, addicted anaesthetist, etc. #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: In the 1942 film “Fly By Night” Richard Carlson plays a hospital intern on the run for a murder he didn’t commit. Oh, there’s a Nazi spy ring, too tinyurl.com/ntsf9kpp & tinyurl.com/4hzcrnw #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Francis Dee as Nurse Betty Cannell in the 1943 film “I Walked with a Zombie” directed by Jacques Tourneur [“Cat People”, “Out of the Past” etc] tinyurl.com/2sy5d9hf #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: The 1963 black & white film “Police Nurse” with its tag line “Out to Crack the ‘Hush Hush’ Society Doctor Racket” tinyurl.com/y5bh2k8p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: 1938 drama “Nurse from Brooklyn” The nurse’s younger brother is killed in a shootout between police & criminals tinyurl.com/yc36hneu & tinyurl.com/ytpd5k2w #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Four Girls in White” a 1939 mostly comic film about student nurses in a three-year training course at a large urban hospital tinyurl.com/2p92es4a #histmed #histnursing #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm #medicalhistory
Today’s Find: “Internes Can’t Take Money” a 1937 film w/Joel McCrea & Barbara Stanwyck, first film appearance of Dr. James Kildare tinyurl.com/2x7zw6zt #histmed #medhistory #medicalfilm #drkildare #joelmccrea #barbarastanwyck
Today’s Find: “The Citadel” a 1938 film based on the A.J. Cronin novel tinyurl.com/d5pbvrb8 An idealistic Scottish doctor begins his career in a Welsh mining village #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Drugs, movies & the history of American soft drinks collide in this picture tinyurl.com/32w9pmb6 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Red Beard” is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa that explores the relationship in a small town between an older doctor & his younger colleague, who resents being in such a place. Excellent film tinyurl.com/ybzfrp3y #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Secrets of a Nurse” 1938 film based on the magazine story “Westside Miracle” by Quentin Reynolds tinyurl.com/yxfhwvds #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “The Sleeping City” Richard Conte plays an undercover cop & Colleen Gray a nurse in a case at Bellevue Hospital in NYC tinyurl.com/6v4msa5 & tinyurl.com/ycn9tkgj #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Strange Impersonation” 1946 film noir. Female research scientist injects her own experimental anesthetic but things do not go as planned tinyurl.com/mdxj4vz3 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Jennifer Jayne is Nurse Gina McConnell & Robert Webber is the “hysterical” American Chris Smith in this twisty little 1965 British thriller tinyurl.com/y6vvowp8 #histmed #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: 1984 film “Purple Hearts” in which a U.S. Navy surgeon & nurse fall in love while stationed in Vietnam. Starring Ken Wahl & Cheryl Ladd
tinyurl.com/yp4muxxj #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: 1953 “Battle Circus” film with Humphry Bogart as a MASH surgeon in the Korean War & June Allyson as a newly arrived nurse tinyurl.com/yfe8rv5k #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Clark Cable is an army surgeon! Lana Turner is an army nurse! In WW II! in this 1948 film “Homecoming” tinyurl.com/n469wc9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “A Doctor’s Story” 1984 TV film with Howard E. Rollins, Jr., & Art Carney. A young physician devotes more time to his career than his wife & family trying to prove an old man is not senile tinyurl.com/4x2tumen #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Dr. Socrates” a 1935 film in which Paul Muni plays a physician forced to treat a wounded gangster. Remade in 1939 as “King of the Underworld” with Humphry Bogart & Kay Francis as the doctor tinyurl.com/38nxajwn #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #paulmuni
Today’s Find: “She Couldn’t Say No” is a 1954 American comedy film. Jean Simmons plays an heiress who returns to the small Arkansas town where she was born; Robert Mitchum plays the town doctor tinyurl.com/yxwkpjdh #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #jeansimmons #robertmitchum
Today’s Find: “Doctors Don’t Tell” is a 1941 crime drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur tinyurl.com/bden49hn Available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/mrxjawed #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #jacquestourneur
Today’s Find: The 1962 film “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” tinyurl.com/yeaa5xsb A classic of its kind #histmed Remade in 2020 #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor and Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warner Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #lorettayoung #warnerbaxter #virginiabruce
Today’s Find: “Late Shift” a 2025 film about a burnt out nurse working in an understaffed Swiss hospital tinyurl.com/4vjakffz & tinyurl.com/59abkct3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
