The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl

There Are Many Beautiful Women in the Life of a Handsome Young Doctor. This is the Strange Love Story of One of Them!

NR 1949 · 98 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama, Romance

Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt · Written by Maxence van der Meersch

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Glenn Ford Dr. Michael Corday
Charles Coburn Dr. John Corday
Gloria DeHaven Fabienne Corday
Janet Leigh Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Bruce Bennett Dr. Alfred Norton
Warner Anderson Dr. George Esmond
Basil Ruysdael Dr. Francis I. Garard
Nancy Reagan Mariette Corday

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