
Modern Times(1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..


“The happiest day of a girl's life... and then a strange shadow falls across her love!”
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Lionel Barrymore
Dr. Leonard Gillespie

Van Johnson
Dr. Randall Adams

Susan Peters
Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young

Richard Quine
Dr. Dennis Lindsey

Keye Luke
Dr. Lee Wong How

Alma Kruger
Molly Byrd

Nat Pendleton
Joe Weyman

Stephen McNally
Howard Allwinn Young

Frank Orth
Mike Ryan

Walter Kingsford
Dr. Walter Carew
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant is a comedy, drama, mystery film released in 1942 exploring themes of hospital. Directed by Willis Goldbeck, it stars Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters. The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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