The Dionne Quintuplets

Name: The Dionne Quintuplets
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1978-11-19
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Annette Dionne, Cécile Dionne, Émilie Dionne, Marie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne

7.0 (1)1978-11-191h 30m

Documentary

Overview

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.