![]() Van Johnson and Keye Luke vied to become Dr. Lew Ayres, who had chosen to be a conscientious objector and refuse certain military duties, left the cast in 1941. Kildare's Wedding Day, Laraine Day's last in the series, was one of the most popular and was marked by one of Red Skelton's early screen appearances. MGM released three Kildare pictures in 1940 alone, including Dr. ![]() Kildare (1938), presented a cast of regular characters that included Nat Pendleton as the ambulance driver and featured Laraine Day, who stayed in the troupe for five pictures. In the cinema version, Lew Ayres starred in the title role and Lionel Barrymore played the senior doctor, a sharp-tongued old curmudgeon with a heart of gold, which he tried to conceal. Kildare, becoming the forerunner of the many medical dramas, like ER and Chicago Hope, that lit up the small screen in the 1990s. In 1961 the same characters, with different actors, made a nationwide success of the television adaptation of Dr. Kildare, and began a series of popular films about a young intern in a metropolitan hospital, and his struggle to learn his profession and earn the respect of a crusty senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine. ![]() In 1938 Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) acquired the rights to author Max Brand's creation, Dr. ![]()
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