@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1920 Oct 13: Actress Laraine Day was born. Her many roles include Nurse Mary Lamont in the Dr. Kildare film series; this still is from the 1939 release "Calling Dr. Kildare". She died 10 Nov 2007 tinyurl.com/y2bw5f22 & tinyurl.com/qhc2hke #histmed #histnursing #medicalfilm #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Drunken Angel” Excellent 1948 film by Akira Kurosawa in which an alcoholic doctor treats a yakuza gangster with tuberculosis #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4xxvtpvu Eddie Muller recently screened this title on his “Noir Alley” on TCM
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Anna May Wong in “King of Chinatown” She plays a physician in this 1939 crime film tinyurl.com/485f6bx8 & tinyurl.com/yc7bdkpz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodays’ Find: “This Woman is Dangerous” 1952 crime film with Joan Crawford & Dennis Morgan. She plays a gangster’s moll who needs risky eye surgery; he’s the surgeon. Sparks fly #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4u63pyzn
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: In the 1950 film “Backfire” Virginia Mayo plays a nurse at a VA hospital who falls in love with a patient. Complications follow tinyurl.com/22w6hr5r #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm