Dr. Monica
Dr. Monica | |
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Directed by |
William Keighley William Dieterle (uncredited) |
Produced by | Henry Blanke (uncredited)[1] |
Written by |
Charles Kenyon (script & adaptation) Laura Walker Mayer (English adaptation) |
Based on |
based on a Polish play by Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska and Dr. Monica (1933 English adaptation) br Laura Walker Mayer |
Starring |
Kay Francis Warren William Jean Muir |
Music by | Heinz Roemheld (uncredited) |
Cinematography | Sol Polito |
Edited by | William Clemens |
Production company | |
Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Vitaphone Corp. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 65 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Dr. Monica is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic melodrama film starring Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir. An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.
Cast
- Kay Francis as Dr. Monica Braden
- Warren William as John Braden
- Jean Muir as Mary Hathaway
- Verree Teasdale as Anna Littlefield
- Emma Dunn as Mrs. Monahan
- Phillip Reed as "Bunny" Burton
- Herbert Bunston as Mr. Pettinghill
- Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Hazlitt
- Virginia Hammond as Mrs. Chandor
- Hale Hamilton as Dr. Brent
Reception
Mordaunt Hall, critic for The New York Times, wrote that Dr. Monica is "not especially suspenseful", but it "moves apace and the acting is excellent."[2]
References
External links
- Dr. Monica at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Dr. Monica at the Internet Movie Database
- Dr. Monica at the TCM Movie Database
- Dr. Monica at AllMovie
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