Four Girls in White

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Four Girls in White
Four Girls in White 1939 poster.jpg
1939 theatrical poster
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Written by Endre Bohem
Nathalie Bucknall
Produced by Nat Levine
Starring Florence Rice
Una Merkel
Buddy Ebsen
CinematographyLeonard Smith
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc.
Release date
  • January 27, 1939 (1939-01-27)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

Four Girls in White is a 1939 drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, starring Florence Rice and Una Merkel. It follows the mostly comical exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course. [1]

Contents

Plot

Student nurses at a large urban hospital cope with life's problems and career issues.

Cast

Production

The working titles for this film were Women in White and Diary of a Nurse, and it was filmed between December 5, 1938 and January 3, 1939.

Parody

On April 4, 1939 Jack Benny and his ensemble performed a parody of "Four Girls in White" on "The JELL-O Program". [2]

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References

  1. "Four Girls in White (1939) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  2. "The Jack Benny Show at OTR.Network (Old Time Radio)". Otr.net. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-07-16.