Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare
Film poster
Directed byHarold S. Bucquet
Screenplay by
Based on"Calling Dr. Kildare"
1940 novel
by Max Brand
Produced byLou Ostrow
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byRobert J. Kern
Music byDavid Snell
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • April 28, 1939 (1939-04-28)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$271,000
Box office$892,000

Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The second of MGM's series of Kildare films, it introduces Laraine Day as nurse Mary Lamont, the love of Kildare's life.