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In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.
November 19, 1978
CBC, ONF | NFB
6 people
Annette Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Acting
Cécile Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Acting
Émilie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Acting
Marie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Acting
Yvonne Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Acting
Pierre Berton
Narrator
Acting
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