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Calling Dr. Kildare: Directed by Harold S. Bucquet. With Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton. Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic.
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Find bio, credits and filmography information for Lew Ayres on AllMovie - The son of a court reporter, actor Lew Ayres began his performing career upon high school…
Jun 25, 2008 · 3. Holiday (1938) After his breakthrough in All Quiet on the Western Front, Ayres’s career didn’t quite work out.He was badly miscast as a gangster in Doorway to Hell (1930) and a boxer in Iron Man (1931), and by the mid-thirties he had descended to Z movies at small studios (being married to rising star Ginger Rogers from 1934 to 1940 couldn’t have been easy).
After the war Ayres was able to resume his career--and his sometimes typecasting as doctors--in such films as "The Dark Mirror" (1946) and "Johnny Belinda" (1948), for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination, though he did little acting in film after the mid-50s.
And who of my generation could ever forget the 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front, that eloquent sermon against war?. To this day I can see its stunning closing scene: the last day of fighting in World War I…the young German soldier, Lew Ayres, disillusioned with war, crouches in a rain-soaked battie trench…a butterfly flutters overhead and alights in the mud…the soldier ...
On September 11, 1931, Lane married actor Lew Ayres in Las Vegas, Nevada. [7] They remained wed until 1933. [2] She was also married to Henry Dunham, a yacht broker, and director Roland West. [3]
The core of his research has been Trinitarian theology in Augustine and in the Greek writers of the 4th century. Ayres's period of research into patristic pneumatology has resulted in a collaborative translation of patristic texts on the Holy Spirit, but as yet the much anticipated monograph on the subject has not appeared.
