Gene Lockhart (as George Winslow) portrays a man of 60 but was actually only 49 years old when this film was made.
Fifth of nine entries in MGM's long-running, progressively more popular and highly profitable Dr. Kildare film franchise starring Lew Ayres released from 1938 to 1940. Alongside (and sometimes double-billed with) the same studio's even more successful Mickey Rooney/Andy Hardy series, Kildare's box office returns by this point justified producing an average of two movies each year.
Mary MacLaren is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Crying Woman," but she did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.
Frederick Schiller Faust, born in 1892, was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand, and particularly for creating the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a pulp fiction series. He also wrote a Western series and an historical swashbuckler series set in Renaissance Italy.
Even with a weak heart, he volunteered as a WWII war correspondent for Harper's Magazine in Italy in order to research for a war novel. This is where he was when hit by shrapnel. Already into middle age, he told the medics to take care of the younger wounded soldiers first. He died from his shrapnel wounds not long afterward.
Even with a weak heart, he volunteered as a WWII war correspondent for Harper's Magazine in Italy in order to research for a war novel. This is where he was when hit by shrapnel. Already into middle age, he told the medics to take care of the younger wounded soldiers first. He died from his shrapnel wounds not long afterward.