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Dr. Kildare

March 22, 2023

This article is about the pulp fiction, film, radio, comic and television character. For the 1960s American TV series, see Dr. Kildare (TV series).

Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film Internes Can't Take Money, starring Joel McCrea as Jimmie Kildare. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsequently acquired the rights and featured Kildare as the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Several of these films were co-written by Faust (as Max Brand), who also continued to write magazine stories and novels about the character until the early 1940s.[1][2] Kildare was portrayed by Lew Ayres in nine MGM films.(Ayres was drafted in 1942 and served as a non-combatant medic until 1946.) Later films set in the same hospital featured Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore). Ayres returned to voice the Kildare character in an early 1950s radio series.[3] The 1961–1966 Dr. Kildare television series made a star of Richard Chamberlain[4] and gave birth to a comic book[5] and comic strip[6] based on the show. A short-lived reboot of the TV series, Young Doctor Kildare, debuted in 1972 and ran for 24 episodes.[7][8]

Dr. James Kildare
Original cover of first Dr. Kildare novel
by Max Brand, Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
First appearance"Internes Can't Take Money",
short story by Max Brand published in Cosmopolitan magazine, Mar. 1936
Created byFrederick Schiller Faust
(as Max Brand)
Portrayed by(1) Joel McCrea
(Internes Can't Take Money,
1937 Paramount film)
(2) Lew Ayres
(1930s–1940s MGM film series
and 1950s radio series)
(3) Richard Chamberlain
(Dr. Kildare,
1961–1966 NBC TV series)
(4) Mark Jenkins
(Young Dr. Kildare,
1972–1973 syndicated TV series)
In-universe information
Nickname"Jimmy" Kildare
GenderMale
TitleDoctor
OccupationPhysician
FamilyDr Stephen Kildare (father)
Martha Kildare (mother)
NationalityAmerican

Magazine stories and novels

Original series

The author Frederick Schiller Faust, writing as Max Brand, created the character of Dr. James Kildare as a fictionalized version of his college friend, Dr. George Winthrop "Dixie" Fish, a New York surgeon.[9] He first introduced the character in a short story, "Internes Can't Take Money", that appeared in the March 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.[10] A second Kildare story, "Whiskey Sour", was published in Cosmopolitan in April 1938.[11] In these early stories, Dr. James "Jimmy" Kildare is an aspiring surgeon who leaves his parents' farm to practice at a fictional big-city hospital, and through his work, comes into contact with underworld criminals.[12] The first Kildare film, Internes Can't Take Money (1937), based on the short story of the same title and made by Paramount, followed this version of the character.[13][14]

In 1938, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contracted with Faust to acquire the rights to the Kildare character along with Faust's services as a film story writer. Faust then made major changes to the character to fit MGM's idea for a new movie series, including changing Kildare's specialty to diagnostics rather than surgery, introducing the character of Kildare's superior Dr. Leonard Gillespie, de-emphasizing the criminal elements, and restarting the story from Kildare's first arrival at the city hospital. Faust (as Brand) collaborated with MGM on its Kildare film series starting with the first MGM series release, Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and continuing through The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941). During this time, Faust wrote several original Kildare stories which were first published in magazines, later republished in novel form, and made into films by MGM. The stories were written prior to the films being made, and were not published as movie tie-ins.[15][16]

After The People vs. Dr. Kildare, Faust and MGM parted ways. Faust was not involved in Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, Dr. Kildare's Victory, or any of the subsequent films featuring Dr. Gillespie, although Faust (as Brand) continued to receive a credit for creating the characters. Faust's last two Kildare stories, "Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case" (published in 1942) and the unfinished story "Dr. Kildare's Dilemma" (posthumously published in the early 1970s), were not made into films.[17] In 1944, Faust was killed in Italy while working as a war correspondent.[15][18]

Dr. Kildare story list

This table lists the Max Brand-authored Kildare stories in chronological order of first publication.[19] Due to the continuing popularity of the characters in film, radio and television series, many reprints, different formats, and different versions of the original Kildare books have since been released.

Story title Magazine publication[19] First book publication[19]
(does not include later reprints)		 Film based on story[13][20] Notes[13][20]
"Internes Can't Take Money" Cosmopolitan, Mar. 1936 Included in The Collected Stories of Max Brand (ed. Robert and Jane Easton), Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1994, pp. 218–235.[12] Internes Can't Take Money (1937) First appearance of Dr. Kildare character, basis for first Kildare film, made by Paramount
"Whiskey Sour" Cosmopolitan, Apr. 1938[11] None None MGM acquired the rights to this story as a possible concept for a Kildare film, but it was never developed.[21]
"Young Dr. Kildare" Serialized in three parts in Argosy :
Dec. 17, 1938 (part 1); Dec. 24, 1938 (part 2); Dec. 31, 1938 (part 3)		 Young Dr. Kildare, Dodd, Mead (1940) Young Dr. Kildare (1938) Basis for first film in Kildare series made by MGM, first appearance of Dr. Gillespie character[22]
"Calling Dr. Kildare" Serialized in three parts in Argosy :
Mar. 25, 1939 (part 1); Apr. 1, 1939 (part 2); Apr. 8, 1939 (part 3)		 Calling Dr. Kildare, Dodd, Mead (1940) Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) Basis for second film in MGM series
"The Secret of Dr. Kildare" Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1939
(condensed version)		 The Secret of Dr. Kildare, Dodd, Mead (1940) The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Basis for third film in MGM series
"Dr. Kildare's Girl"
(alternate title:
"Dr. Kildare's Search")		 Photoplay, Apr. 1940 Dr. Kildare's Search, Dodd, Mead (1942)
(compilation of "Dr. Kildare's Girl" and "Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case")		 Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) Basis for fourth film in MGM series
"Dr. Kildare Goes Home" Serialized in four parts in Argosy : Jun. 1, 1940 (part 1); Jun. 8, 1940 (part 2); Jun. 15, 1940 (part 3); Jun. 22, 1940 (part 4) Dr. Kildare Goes Home, Dodd, Mead (1941)
(alternate title: Dr. Kildare Takes Charge)[23][13][24]		 Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Basis for fifth film in MGM series
"Dr. Kildare's Crisis" Serialized in four parts in Argosy : Dec. 21, 1940 (part 1); Dec. 28, 1940 (part 2); Jan. 4, 1940 (part 3); Jan. 11, 1941 (part 4) Dr. Kildare's Crisis, Dodd, Mead (1942) Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940) Basis for sixth film in MGM series
"The People vs. Dr. Kildare" Cosmopolitan, May 1941
(condensed version)		 Dr. Kildare's Trial, Dodd, Mead (1942) The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Basis for seventh film in MGM series, last collaboration between Faust and MGM
"Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case" Cosmopolitan, Mar. 1942 Dr. Kildare's Search, Dodd, Mead (1942)
(compilation of "Dr. Kildare's Girl" and "Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case")		 None[15] Faust's last complete Kildare story.[15][25]
"Dr. Kildare's Dilemma" (unfinished four-part story) Published in two parts in The Faust Collector, a Los Angeles fanzine edited by William Clark:
Feb. 1971 (part 1); Jan. 1973 (part 2)[26]		 A restored fragment was included in The Max Brand Companion (ed. Jon Tuska et al.), Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 318–335.[27] None Faust's last Kildare story, never finished, posthumously published in the 1970s in unfinished form[26][25]

Aside from the Kildare stories, Faust (as Brand) wrote only one other medical story, "My People", which appeared in the August 1940 issue of Cosmopolitan.[28] "My People" featured a character, "Dr. Maynard", who was similar to Dr. Kildare.[9] MGM acquired the rights to "My People" as a possible concept for a Kildare film, but it was never developed.[21]

Television tie-ins

The popularity of the 1960s Dr. Kildare TV series and its star, Richard Chamberlain, resulted in a number of contemporary tie-in novels by several different authors. Several were released in mass-market paperback form by Lancer Books, while titles aimed at preteen and young teen readers were published by Whitman Publishing. The covers featured photographs of Chamberlain as Kildare, or artwork using his likeness. Known titles are listed below.[24][15][29][30]

By Robert C. Ackworth:

  • Dr. Kildare (Lancer, 1962)
  • Dr. Kildare: Assigned to Trouble (Whitman, 1963) (with Robert L. Jenney, illustrator)

By Norman A. Daniels:

  • Dr. Kildare's Secret Romance (Lancer, 1962)
  • Dr. Kildare's Finest Hour (Lancer, 1963)

By William Johnston:

  • Dr. Kildare: The Faces of Love (Lancer, 1963)
  • Dr. Kildare: The Heart Has an Answer (Lancer, 1963)
  • Dr. Kildare: The Magic Key (Whitman, 1964) (with Al Andersen, illustrator)

Films

Internes Can't Take Money

The character of Dr. Kildare first appeared on film in the 1937 Paramount film, Internes Can't Take Money, based on Max Brand's previously published short story of the same name and starring Joel McCrea as Dr. Kildare. The plot focuses on Dr. Kildare's attempt to help a young female ex-convict (played by Barbara Stanwyck) locate her child. Paramount did not plan any further Kildare films, probably because box-office returns did not meet expectations.[1][14]

MGM film series (1930s–1940s)

 
Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie and Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare in Young Dr. Kildare (1938), the first of nine MGM "Dr. Kildare" series films in which the duo appeared

MGM had noted the popularity of the Kildare character in pulp magazines and, following the release of Internes Can't Take Money, saw an opportunity to obtain an undervalued property and develop a successful film series.[1] In 1938, MGM entered into a deal with author Faust (Brand) to acquire the rights to Dr. Kildare and have Faust work with MGM on developing stories for a film series. Seven Dr. Kildare films were subsequently made by MGM based on stories originally written by Faust.[16] After The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941), Faust and MGM ended their collaboration and MGM continued the series using stories by other writers, though Faust still received a credit for creating the characters.[15][17]

In the MGM series, the Dr. Kildare character (played by Lew Ayres) first appears as a medical intern newly arrived at a New York City hospital, where he attracts the attention of a respected older physician and skilled diagnostician, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (played by Lionel Barrymore). After becoming a physician, Kildare faces a number of professional and personal challenges in the course of his work, while being mentored by Gillespie.[1][20][15]

In 1942, during the making of the tenth film in the MGM series, originally titled Born to Be Bad, Ayres was drafted to serve in WWII and declared himself a conscientious objector.[31] The resulting negative publicity caused MGM to cut Ayres from the film, eliminate the character of Kildare, and change the film's focus to Barrymore's character Gillespie, eventually releasing the revamped film as Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942).[32] Dr. Kildare simply vanished from the series, without explanation, and for Calling Dr. Gillespie the character of a young doctor mentored by the experienced Dr. Gillespie was played by Philip Dorn (as Dr. John Hunter Gerniede). MGM made several more films featuring the Dr. Gillespie character mentoring various young doctors played by Van Johnson (as Dr. Randall "Red" Adams), Keye Luke (as Dr. Lee Wong How), and James Craig (as Dr. Tommy Coalt).[33][34] After leaving the series, the character of Kildare was never seen, heard or so much as mentioned in any of the subsequent films.

MGM Dr. Kildare films

MGM Dr. Gillespie films

  • Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942), with Dr. John Hunter Gerniede (Philip Dorn) replacing the character of Dr. Kildare (Ayres), who was retired from the series
  • Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942), which introduced Gillespie's new assistants Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Van Johnson) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Keye Luke)
  • Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943), with Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Johnson) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Luke)
  • Three Men in White (1944), with Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Johnson) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Luke)
  • Between Two Women (1945), with Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Johnson) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Luke)
  • Dark Delusion (1947), with Dr. Tommy Coalt (James Craig) (replacing Johnson's character) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Luke)[33]

Home media

Warner Bros. released the complete set of MGM Kildare films on DVD as the "Dr. Kildare Movie Collection" via their Warner Archive Collection in January 2014.[1] The set also included, as an extra, the 1960 unaired pilot for the Dr. Kildare TV series starring Lew Ayres. Previously, some of the individual Kildare films had been released individually on DVD through distributors such as Alpha Video,[35] Roan Archival Group,[36] FilmRise[37] and Genius Entertainment.[38]

Warner Bros. also released the complete set of Dr. Gillespie films on DVD as the "Dr. Gillespie Movie Collection" via Warner Archive Collection in November 2014.[39]

The single Paramount Kildare film, Internes Can't Take Money, was released on DVD by Universal as part of "The Barbara Stanwyck Collection" in April 2010.[40]

Radio

The Kildare character first appeared on radio on October 13, 1938, when Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres performed a scene from their soon-to-be-released film, Young Dr. Kildare, on MGM's Good News of 1939 radio program.[41]

In the summer of 1949, MGM reunited Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore to record the radio series, The Story of Dr. Kildare, which used the concept and characters of the earlier Young Dr. Kildare story and did not include any of the young doctors who had replaced Kildare in the later films featuring Dr. Gillespie.[42] By this time, Ayres had returned to public favor after serving in WWII as a medical corpsman.[43] Episodes were scripted by James Moser, Jean Holloway, Les Crutchfield, E. Jack Neuman, John Michael Hayes, Joel Murcott, and others.[3] The supporting cast included Ted Osborne as hospital administrator Dr. Carew, Eleanor Audley as receptionist Molly Byrd, Jane Webb as nurse Mary Lamont, and Virginia Gregg as nurse Evangeline Parker, labeled "Nosy Parker" by Gillespie. In addition, many prominent West Coast radio actors made recurring appearances, including Raymond Burr, William Conrad, Stacy Harris, Lurene Tuttle, Barton Yarborough, and Jack Webb.[3]

Each radio episode was developed as a stand-alone program rather than a serial. Episodes typically focused on Dr. Kildare dealing with a particular medical issue while jousting with eccentric patients and/or hospital administrators.[44][45] The medical information presented was up to date for its time, and sometimes taken from real life; for example, an episode in which Dr. Kildare is forced to perform an emergency appendectomy on himself was based on a news story.[42][3] At least 60 half-hour episodes were produced.[3][45][46]

In addition to airing on the MGM-affiliated New York station WMGM, The Story of Dr. Kildare was originally syndicated to over 200 outlets in the U.S. and Canada, mostly Mutual Broadcasting System stations. The earliest known broadcast of the program took place on September 27, 1949, on Mutual station WGN in Chicago, prior to the WMGM premiere episode on October 12, 1949.[3] In the early 1950s, MGM offered the show to stations as part of a multiple-program package for a price lower than purchasing each program individually.[47][48] However, starting in 1952, stations began to lose interest in such packages, preferring to develop their own local programming to better compete with television.[3] Consequently, despite the show's popularity with audiences,[42] no new episodes of The Story of Dr. Kildare were produced after 1951, although rebroadcasts of old episodes continued to air in syndication for several more years.[3]

Television

Dr. Kildare (1950s)

In 1953, Lew Ayres was approached to play Dr. Kildare in a television series, which would feature Dr. Kildare having finally taken over the practice of a retired Dr. Gillespie. After two pilots were filmed, Ayres refused to work further on the project unless the television studio refused to allow cigarette companies to sponsor the program. Ayres later explained, "My feeling was that a medical show, particularly one that might appeal to children, should not be used to sell cigarettes." The studio would not agree to reject lucrative advertising, so the project was abandoned.[49]

Dr. Kildare (1960s)

Main article: Dr. Kildare (TV series)
 
Raymond Massey as Dr. Gillespie and Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Kildare, in the 1961 Dr. Kildare television series

Lew Ayres reprised his role as Dr. Kildare in an unsold and unaired 1960 TV pilot directed by John Newland (with Joe Cronin as Dr. Grayson)[50][51]

The second attempt at a Kildare TV show premiered on September 28, 1961. The series was a top-10 hit with audiences and ran until April 5, 1966, for a total of 191 episodes in five seasons.[52][53] The first two seasons told the story of Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain), working in a fictional large metropolitan hospital while trying to learn his profession, deal with his patients' problems, and earn the respect of the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). In the third season, Dr. Kildare was promoted to resident and the series began to focus more on the stories of the patients and their families.[54] The success of the show (along with ABC's contemporaneous medical drama Ben Casey) inspired the launch of numerous other television medical dramas in the ensuing years.[55]

Young Dr. Kildare (1970s)

Main article: Young Dr. Kildare (TV series)

In 1972, MGM Television created a short-lived syndicated drama series called Young Dr. Kildare, starring Mark Jenkins as Dr. James Kildare and Gary Merrill as Dr. Leonard Gillespie. The series was not a success, and only 24 episodes were produced.[56][57][58]

Comics

From 1962 to 1965, Dell Comics published a Dr. Kildare comic book based on the 1960s Dr. Kildare television series. The first issue was released April 2, 1962, as No. 1337 in Dell's Four Color Comics line, and featured a story involving a gambler checking into Dr. Kildare's hospital to hide from a hit man.[59][60][61] Dell subsequently continued the comic book for a total of nine issues, with the final issue appearing in April 1965.[5][60][62] All issues had photo covers featuring Chamberlain, the star of the TV series.[60][61][63]

A Dr. Kildare daily comic strip based on the 1960s television series, distributed by King Features Syndicate, and drawn by Ken Bald also premiered on October 15, 1962.[64][65][6] Bald was required to base his drawing of Dr. Kildare on photos of Richard Chamberlain, but made up his own drawings of other characters, including Dr. Gillespie.[6][65] The daily strip, drawn by Bald, ran for over two decades until April 21, 1984, outlasting the television series (which was cancelled in 1966) by nearly 18 years. A Sunday strip also ran from April 19, 1964, to April 3, 1983.[6] Bald retired after the cancellation of the daily strip.[66]

Franchise rights

The underlying rights to the Kildare film and television franchise are owned by Warner Bros. (via Turner Entertainment), with the exception of the 1937 film Internes Can't Take Money, currently owned by EMKA, Ltd./Universal Television, keeper of Paramount Pictures' pre-1950 sound library.

See also

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Further reading

  • Decter, Midge. "Who Killed Dr. Kildare?" in Culture in Crisis and the Renewal of Civil Life (ed. T. William Boxx and Gary M. Quinlivan). Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, pp. 49–56. ISBN 0847682889.
  • Marchessault, Janine. "Men in White, Women in Aprons: Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors", in Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (ed. Ann B. Shteir & Bernard Lightman). Univ. Press of New England, 2006, pp. 315–335. ISBN 978-1584656029.

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kildare, this, article, about, pulp, fiction, film, radio, comic, television, character, 1960s, american, series, series, james, kildare, fictional, american, medical, doctor, originally, created, 1930s, author, frederick, schiller, faust, under, name, brand, . This article is about the pulp fiction film radio comic and television character For the 1960s American TV series see Dr Kildare TV series Dr James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand Shortly after the character s first appearance in a magazine story Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film Internes Can t Take Money starring Joel McCrea as Jimmie Kildare Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM subsequently acquired the rights and featured Kildare as the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s Several of these films were co written by Faust as Max Brand who also continued to write magazine stories and novels about the character until the early 1940s 1 2 Kildare was portrayed by Lew Ayres in nine MGM films Ayres was drafted in 1942 and served as a non combatant medic until 1946 Later films set in the same hospital featured Dr Gillespie Lionel Barrymore Ayres returned to voice the Kildare character in an early 1950s radio series 3 The 1961 1966 Dr Kildare television series made a star of Richard Chamberlain 4 and gave birth to a comic book 5 and comic strip 6 based on the show A short lived reboot of the TV series Young Doctor Kildare debuted in 1972 and ran for 24 episodes 7 8 Dr James KildareOriginal cover of first Dr Kildare novel by Max Brand Young Dr Kildare 1938 First appearance Internes Can t Take Money short story by Max Brand published in Cosmopolitan magazine Mar 1936Created byFrederick Schiller Faust as Max Brand Portrayed by 1 Joel McCrea Internes Can t Take Money 1937 Paramount film 2 Lew Ayres 1930s 1940s MGM film seriesand 1950s radio series 3 Richard Chamberlain Dr Kildare 1961 1966 NBC TV series 4 Mark Jenkins Young Dr Kildare 1972 1973 syndicated TV series In universe informationNickname Jimmy KildareGenderMaleTitleDoctorOccupationPhysicianFamilyDr Stephen Kildare father Martha Kildare mother NationalityAmerican Contents 1 Magazine stories and novels 1 1 Original series 1 1 1 Dr Kildare story list 1 2 Television tie ins 2 Films 2 1 Internes Can t Take Money 2 2 MGM film series 1930s 1940s 2 2 1 MGM Dr Kildare films 2 2 2 MGM Dr Gillespie films 2 3 Home media 3 Radio 4 Television 4 1 Dr Kildare 1950s 4 2 Dr Kildare 1960s 4 3 Young Dr Kildare 1970s 5 Comics 6 Franchise rights 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksMagazine stories and novels EditOriginal series Edit The author Frederick Schiller Faust writing as Max Brand created the character of Dr James Kildare as a fictionalized version of his college friend Dr George Winthrop Dixie Fish a New York surgeon 9 He first introduced the character in a short story Internes Can t Take Money that appeared in the March 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine 10 A second Kildare story Whiskey Sour was published in Cosmopolitan in April 1938 11 In these early stories Dr James Jimmy Kildare is an aspiring surgeon who leaves his parents farm to practice at a fictional big city hospital and through his work comes into contact with underworld criminals 12 The first Kildare film Internes Can t Take Money 1937 based on the short story of the same title and made by Paramount followed this version of the character 13 14 In 1938 Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM contracted with Faust to acquire the rights to the Kildare character along with Faust s services as a film story writer Faust then made major changes to the character to fit MGM s idea for a new movie series including changing Kildare s specialty to diagnostics rather than surgery introducing the character of Kildare s superior Dr Leonard Gillespie de emphasizing the criminal elements and restarting the story from Kildare s first arrival at the city hospital Faust as Brand collaborated with MGM on its Kildare film series starting with the first MGM series release Young Dr Kildare 1938 and continuing through The People vs Dr Kildare 1941 During this time Faust wrote several original Kildare stories which were first published in magazines later republished in novel form and made into films by MGM The stories were written prior to the films being made and were not published as movie tie ins 15 16 After The People vs Dr Kildare Faust and MGM parted ways Faust was not involved in Dr Kildare s Wedding Day Dr Kildare s Victory or any of the subsequent films featuring Dr Gillespie although Faust as Brand continued to receive a credit for creating the characters Faust s last two Kildare stories Dr Kildare s Hardest Case published in 1942 and the unfinished story Dr Kildare s Dilemma posthumously published in the early 1970s were not made into films 17 In 1944 Faust was killed in Italy while working as a war correspondent 15 18 Dr Kildare story list Edit This table lists the Max Brand authored Kildare stories in chronological order of first publication 19 Due to the continuing popularity of the characters in film radio and television series many reprints different formats and different versions of the original Kildare books have since been released Story title Magazine publication 19 First book publication 19 does not include later reprints Film based on story 13 20 Notes 13 20 Internes Can t Take Money Cosmopolitan Mar 1936 Included in The Collected Stories of Max Brand ed Robert and Jane Easton Univ of Nebraska Press 1994 pp 218 235 12 Internes Can t Take Money 1937 First appearance of Dr Kildare character basis for first Kildare film made by Paramount Whiskey Sour Cosmopolitan Apr 1938 11 None None MGM acquired the rights to this story as a possible concept for a Kildare film but it was never developed 21 Young Dr Kildare Serialized in three parts in Argosy Dec 17 1938 part 1 Dec 24 1938 part 2 Dec 31 1938 part 3 Young Dr Kildare Dodd Mead 1940 Young Dr Kildare 1938 Basis for first film in Kildare series made by MGM first appearance of Dr Gillespie character 22 Calling Dr Kildare Serialized in three parts in Argosy Mar 25 1939 part 1 Apr 1 1939 part 2 Apr 8 1939 part 3 Calling Dr Kildare Dodd Mead 1940 Calling Dr Kildare 1939 Basis for second film in MGM series The Secret of Dr Kildare Cosmopolitan Sept 1939 condensed version The Secret of Dr Kildare Dodd Mead 1940 The Secret of Dr Kildare 1939 Basis for third film in MGM series Dr Kildare s Girl alternate title Dr Kildare s Search Photoplay Apr 1940 Dr Kildare s Search Dodd Mead 1942 compilation of Dr Kildare s Girl and Dr Kildare s Hardest Case Dr Kildare s Strange Case 1940 Basis for fourth film in MGM series Dr Kildare Goes Home Serialized in four parts in Argosy Jun 1 1940 part 1 Jun 8 1940 part 2 Jun 15 1940 part 3 Jun 22 1940 part 4 Dr Kildare Goes Home Dodd Mead 1941 alternate title Dr Kildare Takes Charge 23 13 24 Dr Kildare Goes Home 1940 Basis for fifth film in MGM series Dr Kildare s Crisis Serialized in four parts in Argosy Dec 21 1940 part 1 Dec 28 1940 part 2 Jan 4 1940 part 3 Jan 11 1941 part 4 Dr Kildare s Crisis Dodd Mead 1942 Dr Kildare s Crisis 1940 Basis for sixth film in MGM series The People vs Dr Kildare Cosmopolitan May 1941 condensed version Dr Kildare s Trial Dodd Mead 1942 The People vs Dr Kildare 1941 Basis for seventh film in MGM series last collaboration between Faust and MGM Dr Kildare s Hardest Case Cosmopolitan Mar 1942 Dr Kildare s Search Dodd Mead 1942 compilation of Dr Kildare s Girl and Dr Kildare s Hardest Case None 15 Faust s last complete Kildare story 15 25 Dr Kildare s Dilemma unfinished four part story Published in two parts in The Faust Collector a Los Angeles fanzine edited by William Clark Feb 1971 part 1 Jan 1973 part 2 26 A restored fragment was included in The Max Brand Companion ed Jon Tuska et al Greenwood Press 1996 pp 318 335 27 None Faust s last Kildare story never finished posthumously published in the 1970s in unfinished form 26 25 Aside from the Kildare stories Faust as Brand wrote only one other medical story My People which appeared in the August 1940 issue of Cosmopolitan 28 My People featured a character Dr Maynard who was similar to Dr Kildare 9 MGM acquired the rights to My People as a possible concept for a Kildare film but it was never developed 21 Television tie ins Edit The popularity of the 1960s Dr Kildare TV series and its star Richard Chamberlain resulted in a number of contemporary tie in novels by several different authors Several were released in mass market paperback form by Lancer Books while titles aimed at preteen and young teen readers were published by Whitman Publishing The covers featured photographs of Chamberlain as Kildare or artwork using his likeness Known titles are listed below 24 15 29 30 By Robert C Ackworth Dr Kildare Lancer 1962 Dr Kildare Assigned to Trouble Whitman 1963 with Robert L Jenney illustrator By Norman A Daniels Dr Kildare s Secret Romance Lancer 1962 Dr Kildare s Finest Hour Lancer 1963 By William Johnston Dr Kildare The Faces of Love Lancer 1963 Dr Kildare The Heart Has an Answer Lancer 1963 Dr Kildare The Magic Key Whitman 1964 with Al Andersen illustrator Films EditInternes Can t Take Money Edit The character of Dr Kildare first appeared on film in the 1937 Paramount film Internes Can t Take Money based on Max Brand s previously published short story of the same name and starring Joel McCrea as Dr Kildare The plot focuses on Dr Kildare s attempt to help a young female ex convict played by Barbara Stanwyck locate her child Paramount did not plan any further Kildare films probably because box office returns did not meet expectations 1 14 MGM film series 1930s 1940s Edit Lionel Barrymore as Dr Gillespie and Lew Ayres as Dr Kildare in Young Dr Kildare 1938 the first of nine MGM Dr Kildare series films in which the duo appeared MGM had noted the popularity of the Kildare character in pulp magazines and following the release of Internes Can t Take Money saw an opportunity to obtain an undervalued property and develop a successful film series 1 In 1938 MGM entered into a deal with author Faust Brand to acquire the rights to Dr Kildare and have Faust work with MGM on developing stories for a film series Seven Dr Kildare films were subsequently made by MGM based on stories originally written by Faust 16 After The People vs Dr Kildare 1941 Faust and MGM ended their collaboration and MGM continued the series using stories by other writers though Faust still received a credit for creating the characters 15 17 In the MGM series the Dr Kildare character played by Lew Ayres first appears as a medical intern newly arrived at a New York City hospital where he attracts the attention of a respected older physician and skilled diagnostician Dr Leonard Gillespie played by Lionel Barrymore After becoming a physician Kildare faces a number of professional and personal challenges in the course of his work while being mentored by Gillespie 1 20 15 In 1942 during the making of the tenth film in the MGM series originally titled Born to Be Bad Ayres was drafted to serve in WWII and declared himself a conscientious objector 31 The resulting negative publicity caused MGM to cut Ayres from the film eliminate the character of Kildare and change the film s focus to Barrymore s character Gillespie eventually releasing the revamped film as Calling Dr Gillespie 1942 32 Dr Kildare simply vanished from the series without explanation and for Calling Dr Gillespie the character of a young doctor mentored by the experienced Dr Gillespie was played by Philip Dorn as Dr John Hunter Gerniede MGM made several more films featuring the Dr Gillespie character mentoring various young doctors played by Van Johnson as Dr Randall Red Adams Keye Luke as Dr Lee Wong How and James Craig as Dr Tommy Coalt 33 34 After leaving the series the character of Kildare was never seen heard or so much as mentioned in any of the subsequent films MGM Dr Kildare films Edit Young Dr Kildare 1938 which introduced Lew Ayres as Dr Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr Gillespie Calling Dr Kildare 1939 The Secret of Dr Kildare 1939 Dr Kildare s Strange Case 1940 Dr Kildare Goes Home 1940 Dr Kildare s Crisis 1940 The People vs Dr Kildare 1941 the last film made with the collaboration of series creator Frederick Schiller Faust Max Brand 15 Dr Kildare s Wedding Day 1941 Dr Kildare s Victory 1942 1 15 MGM Dr Gillespie films Edit Calling Dr Gillespie 1942 with Dr John Hunter Gerniede Philip Dorn replacing the character of Dr Kildare Ayres who was retired from the series Dr Gillespie s New Assistant 1942 which introduced Gillespie s new assistants Dr Randall Red Adams Van Johnson and Dr Lee Wong How Keye Luke Dr Gillespie s Criminal Case 1943 with Dr Randall Red Adams Johnson and Dr Lee Wong How Luke Three Men in White 1944 with Dr Randall Red Adams Johnson and Dr Lee Wong How Luke Between Two Women 1945 with Dr Randall Red Adams Johnson and Dr Lee Wong How Luke Dark Delusion 1947 with Dr Tommy Coalt James Craig replacing Johnson s character and Dr Lee Wong How Luke 33 Home media Edit Warner Bros released the complete set of MGM Kildare films on DVD as the Dr Kildare Movie Collection via their Warner Archive Collection in January 2014 1 The set also included as an extra the 1960 unaired pilot for the Dr Kildare TV series starring Lew Ayres Previously some of the individual Kildare films had been released individually on DVD through distributors such as Alpha Video 35 Roan Archival Group 36 FilmRise 37 and Genius Entertainment 38 Warner Bros also released the complete set of Dr Gillespie films on DVD as the Dr Gillespie Movie Collection via Warner Archive Collection in November 2014 39 The single Paramount Kildare film Internes Can t Take Money was released on DVD by Universal as part of The Barbara Stanwyck Collection in April 2010 40 Radio EditThe Kildare character first appeared on radio on October 13 1938 when Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres performed a scene from their soon to be released film Young Dr Kildare on MGM s Good News of 1939 radio program 41 In the summer of 1949 MGM reunited Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore to record the radio series The Story of Dr Kildare which used the concept and characters of the earlier Young Dr Kildare story and did not include any of the young doctors who had replaced Kildare in the later films featuring Dr Gillespie 42 By this time Ayres had returned to public favor after serving in WWII as a medical corpsman 43 Episodes were scripted by James Moser Jean Holloway Les Crutchfield E Jack Neuman John Michael Hayes Joel Murcott and others 3 The supporting cast included Ted Osborne as hospital administrator Dr Carew Eleanor Audley as receptionist Molly Byrd Jane Webb as nurse Mary Lamont and Virginia Gregg as nurse Evangeline Parker labeled Nosy Parker by Gillespie In addition many prominent West Coast radio actors made recurring appearances including Raymond Burr William Conrad Stacy Harris Lurene Tuttle Barton Yarborough and Jack Webb 3 Each radio episode was developed as a stand alone program rather than a serial Episodes typically focused on Dr Kildare dealing with a particular medical issue while jousting with eccentric patients and or hospital administrators 44 45 The medical information presented was up to date for its time and sometimes taken from real life for example an episode in which Dr Kildare is forced to perform an emergency appendectomy on himself was based on a news story 42 3 At least 60 half hour episodes were produced 3 45 46 In addition to airing on the MGM affiliated New York station WMGM The Story of Dr Kildare was originally syndicated to over 200 outlets in the U S and Canada mostly Mutual Broadcasting System stations The earliest known broadcast of the program took place on September 27 1949 on Mutual station WGN in Chicago prior to the WMGM premiere episode on October 12 1949 3 In the early 1950s MGM offered the show to stations as part of a multiple program package for a price lower than purchasing each program individually 47 48 However starting in 1952 stations began to lose interest in such packages preferring to develop their own local programming to better compete with television 3 Consequently despite the show s popularity with audiences 42 no new episodes of The Story of Dr Kildare were produced after 1951 although rebroadcasts of old episodes continued to air in syndication for several more years 3 Television EditDr Kildare 1950s Edit In 1953 Lew Ayres was approached to play Dr Kildare in a television series which would feature Dr Kildare having finally taken over the practice of a retired Dr Gillespie After two pilots were filmed Ayres refused to work further on the project unless the television studio refused to allow cigarette companies to sponsor the program Ayres later explained My feeling was that a medical show particularly one that might appeal to children should not be used to sell cigarettes The studio would not agree to reject lucrative advertising so the project was abandoned 49 Dr Kildare 1960s Edit Main article Dr Kildare TV series Raymond Massey as Dr Gillespie and Richard Chamberlain as Dr Kildare in the 1961 Dr Kildare television series Lew Ayres reprised his role as Dr Kildare in an unsold and unaired 1960 TV pilot directed by John Newland with Joe Cronin as Dr Grayson 50 51 The second attempt at a Kildare TV show premiered on September 28 1961 The series was a top 10 hit with audiences and ran until April 5 1966 for a total of 191 episodes in five seasons 52 53 The first two seasons told the story of Dr James Kildare Richard Chamberlain working in a fictional large metropolitan hospital while trying to learn his profession deal with his patients problems and earn the respect of the senior Dr Leonard Gillespie Raymond Massey In the third season Dr Kildare was promoted to resident and the series began to focus more on the stories of the patients and their families 54 The success of the show along with ABC s contemporaneous medical drama Ben Casey inspired the launch of numerous other television medical dramas in the ensuing years 55 Young Dr Kildare 1970s Edit Main article Young Dr Kildare TV series In 1972 MGM Television created a short lived syndicated drama series called Young Dr Kildare starring Mark Jenkins as Dr James Kildare and Gary Merrill as Dr Leonard Gillespie The series was not a success and only 24 episodes were produced 56 57 58 Comics EditFrom 1962 to 1965 Dell Comics published a Dr Kildare comic book based on the 1960s Dr Kildare television series The first issue was released April 2 1962 as No 1337 in Dell s Four Color Comics line and featured a story involving a gambler checking into Dr Kildare s hospital to hide from a hit man 59 60 61 Dell subsequently continued the comic book for a total of nine issues with the final issue appearing in April 1965 5 60 62 All issues had photo covers featuring Chamberlain the star of the TV series 60 61 63 A Dr Kildare daily comic strip based on the 1960s television series distributed by King Features Syndicate and drawn by Ken Bald also premiered on October 15 1962 64 65 6 Bald was required to base his drawing of Dr Kildare on photos of Richard Chamberlain but made up his own drawings of other characters including Dr Gillespie 6 65 The daily strip drawn by Bald ran for over two decades until April 21 1984 outlasting the television series which was cancelled in 1966 by nearly 18 years A Sunday strip also ran from April 19 1964 to April 3 1983 6 Bald retired after the cancellation of the daily strip 66 Franchise rights EditThe underlying rights to the Kildare film and television franchise are owned by Warner Bros via Turner Entertainment with the exception of the 1937 film Internes Can t Take Money currently owned by EMKA Ltd Universal Television keeper of Paramount Pictures pre 1950 sound library See also EditDoctor novel series a British dramatic comedy series of novels films and serialized television programs List of fictional doctors Medical drama List of medical drama television programsReferences Edit a b c d e f Mavis Paul Dr Kildare Movie Collection Warner Archive Collection DVD review DVDtalk com Mar 16 2014 accessed Mar 29 2015 Movies News Desk 21 January 2014 Dr Kildare Among Warner Archive s New Releases Broadway World Wisdom Digital Media Retrieved 8 June 2014 a b c d e f g h The Digital Deli Online The Story of Dr Kildare Radio Program Archived March 27 2014 at the Wayback Machine digitaldeliftp com accessed Mar 29 2015 Mcneil Alex Total Television The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present Revised Edition Penguin Books 1996 p 225 ISBN 978 0140249163 a b Polite Dissent blog The Brief Golden Age of Medical Comics Archived 2015 04 02 at the Wayback Machine politedissent com May 28 2012 accessed Mar 29 2015 a b c d The Archivist Ask the Archivist Calling Dr Kildare The Comics Kingdom Blog comicskingdom com Oct 24 2012 accessed Mar 29 2015 Young Dr Kildare overview TVguide com accessed Mar 29 2015 Marchessault Janine Men in White Women in Aprons Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors in Figuring It Out Science Gender and Visual Culture ed Ann B Shteir amp Bernard Lightman Univ Press of New England 2006 pp 315 335 ISBN 978 1584656029 a b Richardson Darrell Coleman ed Max Brand the Man amp His Work Critical Appreciations and Bibliography Fantasy Pub Co 1952 p 98 Easton Robert and Jane ed Internes Can t Take Money introduction to reprint of story written by Max Brand in The Collected Stories of Max Brand hereinafter Collected Stories Univ of Nebraska Press 1994 p 217 ISBN 0803212445 a b Copyright Office Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals Current and Renewal Registrations Jan Jun 1966 p 1143 a b Brand Max Internes Can t Take Money in Collected Stories pp 218 235 a b c d Herzog Evelyn Young Detective Kildare The Mystery Fancier ed Guy M Townsend Mar Apr 1983 pp 1 9 a b Zodin Susan L The Making of a Medical Man Max Brand s Young Dr Kildare in The Max Brand Companion ed Jon Tuska et al Greenwood Press 1996 p 463 ISBN 0313297509 a b c d e f g h i Herzog p 9 a b Zodin pp 463 474 a b Zodin pp 475 477 Associated Press Max Brand Author of Dr Kildare Killed in Italy Lock Haven Pennsylvania Express May 16 1944 p 1 a b c Unless otherwise specified all publication data in the table is sourced from the official Max Brand website at MaxBrandOnline com See Bibliography of Max Brand works Archived 2017 06 20 at the Wayback Machine MaxBrandOnline com accessed Mar 28 2015 a b c Zodin pp 463 477 a b Nolan William F ed Max Brand Western Giant The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust Popular Press 1985 p 151 ISBN 0879722916 Zodin pp 463 464 Although the official Max Brand bibliography available at MaxBrandOnline com lists the title of this book as Dr Kildare Goes Home several other sources cited following this reference list the book title as Dr Kildare Takes Charge a b Drew Bernard A Literary Afterlife The Posthumous Continuations of 325 Authors Fictional Characters McFarland amp Co 2010 pp 72 73 ISBN 978 0786441792 a b Tuska Jon et al ed The Max Brand Companion list of publications Greenwood Press 1996 p 176 ISBN 0313297509 a b Zodin pp 476 477 Brand Max Dr Kildare s Dilemma A Fragment in The Max Brand Companion ed Jon Tuska et al Greenwood Press 1996 pp 318 335 Copyright Office Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals Current and Renewal Registrations Jul Dec 1967 p 2603 Berch Victor A Letter to Editor regarding Lancer published titles authored by Norman A Daniels Paperback Quarterly Spring 1982 p 49 Tony s Trading Dr Kildare Gallery tonystrading co uk accessed Apr 20 2015 Ayres Backs His Project Religiously Film Actor best known for Dr Kildare says his documentary Altars of the World represents the bigger part of his life today Los Angeles Times 6 April 1991 Retrieved 16 February 2015 Lionel Barrymore Has Title Role in Calling Dr Gillespie of the Dr Kildare Series at Loew s Criterion Theatre The New York Times Jul 9 1942 Amusements section p 17 a b Zodin p 477 Coffin Lesley L Lew Ayres Hollywood s Conscientious Objector Univ Press of Mississippi 2012 pp 99 121 Dr Kildare s Strange Case DVD listing Amazon com accessed Apr 24 2015 The Secret of Dr Kildare DVD listing Amazon com accessed Apr 24 2015 Dr Kildare s Strange Case Digitally Remastered DVD listing Amazon com accessed Apr 24 2015 Dr Kildare s Strange Case DVD listing Amazon com accessed Apr 24 2015 Mavis Paul Dr Gillespie Film Collection Warner Archive Collection DVD review DVDtalk com uploaded Dec 19 2014 accessed Apr 24 2015 Mavis Paul The Barbara Stanwyck Collection There s Always Tomorrow All I Desire The Lady Gambles Internes Can t Take Money and more DVD review DVDtalk com uploaded Apr 27 2010 accessed Apr 24 2015 http www otrsite com logs logg1019 htm Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs Series Good News of 1939 entry 90236 for Young Dr Kildare otrsite com accessed Apr 2 2015 a b c Coffin p 151 Coffin pp 134 141 Dunning John On the Air The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio Oxford Univ Press 1998 pp 205 206 ISBN 978 0195076783 a b Old Time Radio Researchers Group Dr Kildare Single Episodes archive of 60 individual episodes archived at https archive org details OTRR Dr Kildare Singles accessed Apr 10 2015 http www otrsite com logs logd1023 htm Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs Series The Story of Dr Kildare otrsite com accessed Apr 11 2015 Possibly more than 60 episodes were made and that the total number of episodes could be 78 according to The Digital Deli Online 80 according to Haendiges or even 104 according to The Digital Deli Online Metro Goldwyn Mayer Radio Attractions Jet Propelled And Heading Your Way MGM advertisement for 8 program radio package Billboard Nov 5 1949 p 13 MGM Program Lineup Finalized by Mutual Billboard Nov 17 1951 p 5 Coffin pp 151 152 Terrace Vincent Encyclopedia of Television Pilots 1937 2012 McFarland amp Co 2013 p 77 ISBN 978 0786474455 News Brief mentioning test film for new Dr Kildare TV series starring Lew Ayres and Joseph Cronin TV Guide Feb 20 1960 A second attempt at a television series was made in the early 1960s with Dr Kildare an NBC medical drama television series starring Richard Chamberlain in the title role produced by MGM Television and inspired by the original Dr Kildare stories and films Dr Kildare NBC ended 1966 overview Archived 2019 03 14 at the Wayback Machine TV com accessed Mar 28 2015 Philips Deborah Medicated Soap The Woman Doctor in Television Medical Drama in Frames and Fictions on Television The Politics of Identity Within Drama ed Bruce Carson amp Margaret Llewellyn Jones Intellect Books 2000 p 52 ISBN 1841500097 Brooks Tim and Earl Marsh The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 Present Ninth Edition Ballantine Books 2007 p 371 ISBN 978 0345497734 Berkowitz Edward D Mass Appeal The Formative Age of the Movies Radio and TV Cambridge Univ Press 2010 pp 128 129 ISBN 978 0521889087 Young Dr Kildare TV Series entry at Internet Movie Database imdb com accessed Mar 28 2015 Nolan p 157 Erickson Hal Syndicated Television The First Forty Years 1947 1987 McFarland amp Co 2001 pp 221 222 ISBN 978 0786411986 Thompson Maggie Complete List of Four Color Comics Issues atomicavenue com accessed Apr 14 2015 a b c Four Color Comics 1337 Dell 1962 Archived 2015 04 03 at the Wayback Machine politedissent com uploaded Aug 3 2005 accessed Apr 14 2015 a b Four Color 1337 archive of issue comicbookplus com uploaded Nov 4 2013 accessed Apr 14 2015 Dr Kildare archive of issues comicbookplus com uploaded Jun 20 2013 accessed Apr 14 2015 Dr Kildare 1962 Comic Books list of issues mycomicshop com accessed Apr 14 2015 Wells John et al American Comic Book Chronicles 1960 1964 TwoMorrows Publishing 2012 p 77 ISBN 978 1605490458 a b Dr Kildare in Daily Comic Strip Daytona Beach Morning Journal Oct 11 1962 p 9 Syracuse University Library Ken Bald Papers Biographical History online description library syr edu accessed Apr 16 2015 Further reading EditDecter Midge Who Killed Dr Kildare in Culture in Crisis and the Renewal of Civil Life ed T William Boxx and Gary M Quinlivan Rowman amp Littlefield 1996 pp 49 56 ISBN 0847682889 Marchessault Janine Men in White Women in Aprons Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors in Figuring It Out Science Gender and Visual Culture ed Ann B Shteir amp Bernard Lightman Univ Press of New England 2006 pp 315 335 ISBN 978 1584656029 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dr Kildare Dr Kildare in the Internet Archive s Old Time Radio Collection Dr Kildare comic book archive at Comic Book Plus Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dr Kildare amp oldid 1144698808, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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