The Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets

1978 · 90 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

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.

Directed by Donald Brittain

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Annette Dionne Self (Archive Footage)
Cécile Dionne Self (Archive Footage)
Émilie Dionne Self (Archive Footage)
Marie Dionne Self (Archive Footage)
Yvonne Dionne Self (Archive Footage)
Pierre Berton Narrator

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