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DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5h142 DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT 8 LCs '42 Lionel Barrymore & sexy runaway bride Susan Peters! Date Sold 6/2/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (11x14; LCs; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, the 1942 Willis Goldbeck medical doctor hospital mystery thriller ("All new! Baffling!"; "The case of the runaway bride!"; "From the stage play by Leon Gordon"; "Based on a novel by Ida Vera Simonton"; the movie concerns Dr. Gillespie having to pick a new assistant to replace the departing young Dr. Kildare, and he holds a contest between three competent young doctors; yet the posters for this movie center on the sexy "runaway bride", who stars in an unrelated fairly minor subplot!) starring Lionel Barrymore (in the title role as Dr. Gillespie), Van Johnson (in his third credited movie role!), Richard Quine, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger, Nat Pendleton, Stephen McNally (billed as "Horace McNally"), and Susan Peters (one of the most tragic, yet oddly forgotten, stories of Hollywood female stars who rise and fall in a short time; she was one of MGM's most promising young female stars in 1943, and she married co-star Richard Quine, but in 1945, she was wounded in a hunting accident, and she became paralyzed from the waist down; she appeared in a movie and a TV show as a wheelchair-bound actress, without much success, and she divorced and starved herself to death, dying in 1952 at the age of 31). Note that the Dr. Kildare movies were made between 1938 and 1947. Lew Ayres was forced to leave in 1942 (more on that below), and six more films were made WITHOUT Dr. Kildare, but WITH Dr. Gillespie (played as always by Lionel Barrymore), who became top billed in those six movies, and of course, they could not be official "Dr. Kildare movies", because the lead character was no longer at the hospital. Also, note that Lew Ayres had declared himself a conscientious objector to World War II (WWII), and he was blacklisted in Hollywood as a result. He went on to change his status to 'non-combatant', serving as a medic in the South Pacific, as well as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Philippines. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: This set of lobby cards includes the original envelope that they came in. Condition: fine. Note that these lobby cards are in really wonderful condition, without even a single pinhole on any of the cards. It would be hard to find an example of this set in better condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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