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The Love Doctor (1929)

The Love Doctor poster
Directed by
Melville W. Brown
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy from 1929 about a man who pretends to be a doctor to win over a woman. He gets into a series of misunderstandings and comic situations.

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What happens

The Love Doctor is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by Guy Bolton, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and J. Walter Ruben based upon a play by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith. The film stars Richard Dix, June Collyer, Morgan Farley, Miriam Seegar, Winifred Harris, and Lawford Davidson. The film was released on October 5, 1929, by Paramount Pictures. It was previously filmed as a silent film in 1925, The Boomerang, starring Anita Stewart. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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