“The Country Doctor”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 16

“The Country Doctor”

TTOLLY WOOD awarded Darryl F. Zanuck the palm for the event of the year when he signed the Dionne Quintuplets to star in “The Country Doctor,” produced by Fox. Several of the other studios made much ado about trying to get the “Quints.” The original story was purchased from Charles R. Blake, a Chicago newspaper man who was one of the first on the scene when the babies were born. With the story and the “Quints” all secured, Zanuck immediately dispatched a crew headed by Director

Henry King to Canada to film the scenes with the babies

. . . hundreds of Hollywood actors had besieged Zanuck for the title role, realising the immensely popular appeal of the quinjtuplets. Zanuck disregarded applications and made his own choice when he borrowed Jean Hersholt for the part. The next most important role is that of the nurse, and Dorothy Peterson was selected for that. Hollywood estimates that “The Country Doctor” should be the biggest box-office success of 1936.

Violet. Kemble-Cooper, a London actress who is descended from Sarah Siddons, has been added to the Norma Shearer-Leslie Howard cast of “Romeo and Juliet.” She is to play Lady Capulet, says a London report, the trouble.

Bing Crosby is not Hollywood’s only father of. twins. Richard Dix has a Richard and a Robert, aged close on nine months, and they caused him to turn down a fat contract to play that same leading role in the British-spon-sored. Australian-made picture, “The Flying Doctor,” which Charlie Farrell eventually accepted. Richard, sen., promised the twins in their fond mother's hearing that he would not leave them for five years and since the doctor said it would certainly not be O.K. to take them 6000 miles to the