December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Today’s Find: “Doctors Don’t Tell” is a 1941 crime drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur tinyurl.com/bden49hn Available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/mrxjawed #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
August 8, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Today’s Find: “Doctors Don’t Tell” is a 1941 crime drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur tinyurl.com/bden49hn Available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/mrxjawed #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: The 1963 black & white film “Police Nurse” with its tag line “Out to Crack the ‘Hush Hush’ Society Doctor Racket” tinyurl.com/y5bh2k8p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today’s Find: The 1963 black & white film “Police Nurse” with its tag line “Out to Crack the ‘Hush Hush’ Society Doctor Racket” tinyurl.com/y5bh2k8p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’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
September 5, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Today’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
Today’s Find: “Secrets of a Nurse” 1938 film based on the magazine story “Westside Miracle” by Quentin Reynolds tinyurl.com/yxfhwvds #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Today’s Find: “Secrets of a Nurse” 1938 film based on the magazine story “Westside Miracle” by Quentin Reynolds tinyurl.com/yxfhwvds #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Vigil in the Night” a 1940 film about two sister nurses starring Carol Lombard, Brian Aherne & Anne Shirley tinyurl.com/3j58yk4n Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
June 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Today’s Find: “Vigil in the Night” a 1940 film about two sister nurses starring Carol Lombard, Brian Aherne & Anne Shirley tinyurl.com/3j58yk4n Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “You Belong to Me” a 1941 film with Barbara Stanwyck as a female physician & Henry Fonda as her millionaire playboy patient and then husband tinyurl.com/44997en3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
January 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Today’s Find: “You Belong to Me” a 1941 film with Barbara Stanwyck as a female physician & Henry Fonda as her millionaire playboy patient and then husband tinyurl.com/44997en3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Internes Can’t Take Money” a 1937 film w/Joel McCrea & Barbara Stanwyck, first film appearance of Dr. James Kildare tinyurl.com/2x7zw6zt #histmed #medhistory #medicalfilm #drkildare #joelmccrea #barbarastanwyck
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today’s Find: “Internes Can’t Take Money” a 1937 film w/Joel McCrea & Barbara Stanwyck, first film appearance of Dr. James Kildare tinyurl.com/2x7zw6zt #histmed #medhistory #medicalfilm #drkildare #joelmccrea #barbarastanwyck
Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor, Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warren Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
May 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor, Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warren Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Clark Cable is an army surgeon! Lana Turner is an army nurse! In WW II! in this 1948 film “Homecoming” tinyurl.com/n469wc9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today’s Find: Clark Cable is an army surgeon! Lana Turner is an army nurse! In WW II! in this 1948 film “Homecoming” tinyurl.com/n469wc9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor and Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warner Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #lorettayoung #warnerbaxter #virginiabruce
August 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor and Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warner Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #lorettayoung #warnerbaxter #virginiabruce
Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “Backfire” Virginia Mayo plays a VA hospital nurse who falls in love with a patient. Complications follow tinyurl.com/22w6hr5r #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
May 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “Backfire” Virginia Mayo plays a VA hospital nurse who falls in love with a patient. Complications follow tinyurl.com/22w6hr5r #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: John Ford’s 1936 film “The Prisoner of Shark Island” about Maryland physician Samuel Mudd who was imprisoned for treating Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth tinyurl.com/4v6m4cpb & tinyurl.com/yckecd28 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
March 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Today’s Find: John Ford’s 1936 film “The Prisoner of Shark Island” about Maryland physician Samuel Mudd who was imprisoned for treating Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth tinyurl.com/4v6m4cpb & tinyurl.com/yckecd28 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
2002 July 19: Novelist Barry Reed died; wrote "The Verdict" about an anesthesia complications legal case tinyurl.com/m3u7dod The 1980 novel was adapted into a 1982 film w/Paul Newman #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction #anesthesiahistory #medicalfilm
July 19, 2026 at 11:28 AM
2002 July 19: Novelist Barry Reed died; wrote "The Verdict" about an anesthesia complications legal case tinyurl.com/m3u7dod The 1980 novel was adapted into a 1982 film w/Paul Newman #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction #anesthesiahistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Jennifer Jayne is Nurse Gina McConnell & Robert Webber is the “hysterical” American Chris Smith in this twisty little 1965 British thriller tinyurl.com/y6vvowp8 #histmed #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Today’s Find: Jennifer Jayne is Nurse Gina McConnell & Robert Webber is the “hysterical” American Chris Smith in this twisty little 1965 British thriller tinyurl.com/y6vvowp8 #histmed #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “The Doctor & the Girl” a 1949 film starring Glenn Ford as an intern at Bellevue in NYC & Janet Leigh as a patient he eventually marries tinyurl.com/4ffepzn3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
May 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Today’s Find: “The Doctor & the Girl” a 1949 film starring Glenn Ford as an intern at Bellevue in NYC & Janet Leigh as a patient he eventually marries tinyurl.com/4ffepzn3 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: 1953 “Battle Circus” film with Humphry Bogart as a MASH surgeon in the Korean War & June Allyson as a newly arrived nurse tinyurl.com/yfe8rv5k #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
October 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Today’s Find: 1953 “Battle Circus” film with Humphry Bogart as a MASH surgeon in the Korean War & June Allyson as a newly arrived nurse tinyurl.com/yfe8rv5k #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “The Sleeping City” Richard Conte plays an undercover cop & Colleen Gray a nurse in a case at Bellevue Hospital in NYC tinyurl.com/6v4msa5 & tinyurl.com/ycn9tkgj #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “The Sleeping City” Richard Conte plays an undercover cop & Colleen Gray a nurse in a case at Bellevue Hospital in NYC tinyurl.com/6v4msa5 & tinyurl.com/ycn9tkgj #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Four Girls in White” a 1939 mostly comic film about student nurses in a three-year training course at a large urban hospital tinyurl.com/2p92es4a #histmed #histnursing #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm #medicalhistory
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today’s Find: “Four Girls in White” a 1939 mostly comic film about student nurses in a three-year training course at a large urban hospital tinyurl.com/2p92es4a #histmed #histnursing #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm #medicalhistory
Today’s Find: “Behind the Mask” 1958 British medical drama; Vanessa Redgrave’s first film role tinyurl.com/3nn2vdns Based on John Rowan Wilson’s 1955 novel “The Pack”. Includes busy surgeon, authentic heart surgery footage, addicted anaesthetist, etc. #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today’s Find: “Behind the Mask” 1958 British medical drama; Vanessa Redgrave’s first film role tinyurl.com/3nn2vdns Based on John Rowan Wilson’s 1955 novel “The Pack”. Includes busy surgeon, authentic heart surgery footage, addicted anaesthetist, etc. #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Francis Dee as Nurse Betty Cannell in the 1943 film “I Walked with a Zombie” directed by Jacques Tourneur [“Cat People”, “Out of the Past” etc] tinyurl.com/2sy5d9hf #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Today’s Find: Francis Dee as Nurse Betty Cannell in the 1943 film “I Walked with a Zombie” directed by Jacques Tourneur [“Cat People”, “Out of the Past” etc] tinyurl.com/2sy5d9hf #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: Released in 1940 “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case” featured Lew Ayers as the young doctor created by author Max Brand tinyurl.com/4yuparry The character appeared in novels, films, tv and radio shows, comic books, etc. #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
May 10, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Today’s Find: Released in 1940 “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case” featured Lew Ayers as the young doctor created by author Max Brand tinyurl.com/4yuparry The character appeared in novels, films, tv and radio shows, comic books, etc. #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
Today’s Find: “Dr. Socrates” a 1935 film in which Paul Muni plays a physician forced to treat a wounded gangster. Remade in 1939 as “King of the Underworld” with Humphry Bogart & Kay Francis as the doctor tinyurl.com/38nxajwn #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #paulmuni
September 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Today’s Find: “Dr. Socrates” a 1935 film in which Paul Muni plays a physician forced to treat a wounded gangster. Remade in 1939 as “King of the Underworld” with Humphry Bogart & Kay Francis as the doctor tinyurl.com/38nxajwn #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #paulmuni
Today’s Find: “Stalked by My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge” is a 2018 TV medical film with Eric Roberts as—guess who—the evil Dr. Albert Beck. This title is one of five in the series, 2015-2021 tinyurl.com/25wy4umz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
June 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Today’s Find: “Stalked by My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge” is a 2018 TV medical film with Eric Roberts as—guess who—the evil Dr. Albert Beck. This title is one of five in the series, 2015-2021 tinyurl.com/25wy4umz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
1968 Aug 26: Actress Kay Francis died tinyurl.com/c5rjbcbr She played the physician title character in the 1934 film "Dr. Monica" tinyurl.com/cx4m49mt The film's pretty interesting, but her clothes are spectacular. She was born 13 Jan 1905 #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
August 26, 2026 at 11:58 AM
1968 Aug 26: Actress Kay Francis died tinyurl.com/c5rjbcbr She played the physician title character in the 1934 film "Dr. Monica" tinyurl.com/cx4m49mt The film's pretty interesting, but her clothes are spectacular. She was born 13 Jan 1905 #medicalhistory #medicalfilm