Bedside Manner is a 1945 American film directed by Andrew L. Stone based on the 1944 Saturday Evening Post story of the same name by Robert Carson. The film is also known as Her Favorite Patient; the title of the Astor Pictures 1950 re-release.Synopsis
Plastic surgeon Dr. Hedy Fredericks (Ruth Hussey) picks up three hitchhiking Marines, Tommy (Joel McGinnis), Dick (John James), and Harry (Frank Jenks) (who all have Smith as their last name), while driving home to Chicago. On the way she makes a quick stop in her birth town of Blithewood, and is appalled by the way the town has changed since she left it years ago. The whole town now has a large defense plant with the population having grown dramatically.
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