The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Glenn Ford first appeared under the MGM banner in The Doctor and the Girl. Ford stars as Dr. Michael Corday, scion of a highly respected family of physicians. When he marries one of his patients, shopgirl Evelyn Heldon (Janet Leigh), Corday is thrown out of his house by his tradition-bound father (Charles Coburn). Denied a posh Park Avenue practice, Corday becomes a selflessly dedicated general practitioner, while his rebellious sister Fabienne (Gloria de Haven) likewise leaves home and hearth in favor of Greenwich Village bohemianism. Father and son are tearfully reconciled when Fabienne dies as the result of a botched abortion (though her operation is never so identified). Doctor and the Girl is a toned-down, telescoped adaptation of Maxence van der Meersh's best-selling novel Bodies and Souls.
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abortion, conflict, death, disapproval, doctor/nurse, family-disapproval, father, forbidden-love, hospital, love, lower-class, medical, parent, patient [medical], practice [professional], sister, slums, son, struggle, wealth, girl
