That Mothers Might Live (1938)
April 30, 1938Release Date
That Mothers Might Live (1938)
April 30, 1938Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
John Nesbitt
Narrator
Shepperd Strudwick
Dr. Semmelweis
Rudolph Anders
Doctor
King Baggot
Passerby
Fred Zinnemann
Director
Ralph Brooks
Medical Student at Lecture (uncredited)
Herman Boxer
Writer
David Snell
Composer
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Wiki.
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use.