Dr. Monica

Dr. Monica
Dr. Monica
Directed by	William Keighley; William Dieterle (uncredited)[citation needed]
Written by	Charles Kenyon (script & adaptation); Laura Walker Mayer (English adaptation)
Produced by	Henry Blanke (uncredited)<roef name=afi />
Starring	Kay Francis; Warren William; Jean Muir
Cinematography	Sol Polito
Edited by	William Clemens
Music by	Heinz Roemheld (uncredited)
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.; Vitaphone Corp.
Release dates	June 21, 1934 (NYC); June 23, 1934 (US);
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dr. Monica is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic melodrama film produced by Warner Bros. starring Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir. An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.

Cast

Kay Francis as Dr. Monica Braden
Warren William as John Braden
Jean Muir as Mary Hathaway
Verree Teasdale as Anna Littlefield
Emma Dunn as Mrs. Monahan
Phillip Reed as "Bunny" Burton
Herbert Bunston as Mr. Pettinghill
Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Hazlitt
Virginia Hammond as Mrs. Chandor
Hale Hamilton as Dr. Brent

Censorship

The censors at the Hays Office requested a large number of changes to the script before they would approve it for production. One of the major issues they had with the script was that it explicitly included dialogue about the potential dangers of childbirth.^[2]

Reception

Mordaunt Hall, critic for The New York Times, wrote that Dr. Monica is "not especially suspenseful", but it "moves apace and the acting is excellent."^[3]

References

^ Dr. Monica at the American Film Institute Catalog
^ Kirby, David A. (September 2017). "Regulating cinematic stories about reproduction: pregnancy, childbirth, abortion and movie censorship in the US, 1930–1958". The British Journal for the History of Science. 50 (3): 451–472. doi:10.1017/S0007087417000814. ISSN 0007-0874.
^ Hall, Mordaunt (June 21, 1934). "Doctor Monica (1934): The Screen; Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir in the Picturization of a Polish Stage Work". The New York Times.

External links

Dr. Monica at the American Film Institute Catalog
Dr. Monica at IMDb
Dr. Monica at the TCM Movie Database
Dr. Monica at AllMovie

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[afi-1] Dr. Monica at the American Film Institute Catalog

[2] Kirby, David A. (September 2017). "Regulating cinematic stories about reproduction: pregnancy, childbirth, abortion and movie censorship in the US, 1930–1958". The British Journal for the History of Science. 50 (3): 451–472. doi:10.1017/S0007087417000814. ISSN 0007-0874.

[3] Hall, Mordaunt (June 21, 1934). "Doctor Monica (1934): The Screen; Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir in the Picturization of a Polish Stage Work". The New York Times.

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