Between Two Women 1937

     A man is trapped in an explosion on the job.  Allen Meighan is a hospital intern and he becomes a resident at General Hospital after he amputates the man’s arm.  There was no way to save the arm because it was trapped under a collapsed steel beam.  Clair Donahue also works at the hospital and she’s married to an abusive alcoholic husband.  Patricia Sloan is admitted to the hospital with a burst appendix and she has peritonitis.  Dr. Meighan and Nurse Donahue take care of her.  She will need to stay in the hospital several days because of the possibility of infection.  Nurse Donahue needles Dr. Meighan about Patricia and that leads to Patricia asking Dr. Meighan to marry her.  They do marry but there are complications because Patricia likes to attend parties and Dr. Meighan has a lot of on-call evenings. 

      I didn’t think hospital soap operas were filmed in 1937?  The first American hospital TV series was City Hospital starting in 1951 and ending in 1953.  There are newer releases like Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, Nurse Jackie, The Night Shift, St. Elsewhere, Code Black, Chicago Hope, M*A*S*H, Nip/Tuck, Chicago Med, Casualty and Private Practice.  This film has all the requirements, emergencies, disasters, complications, doctors arguing with each other, doctors and nurses in love plus hospital gossip.  3* (This movie is OK)

88 min, Drama directed by George B. Seitz with Franchot Tone, Maureen O’Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn, Cliff Edwards, Janet Beecher, Charley Grapewin, Helen Troy, Grace Ford, June Clayworth, Edward Norris.

Note:  6.2 out of 10, TCM Leonard Maltin 2* out of 4*, 5* user ratings, Letterboxd average 2.5* out of 5*.

Special Note:  There are three other movies with the same title filmed in 1945, 1986 and 2004.  Filmed at MGM Studios in Culver City, California.