**SPOILERS** Finally agreeing to tie the knot, after a seven year courtship, the by now not so young Doctor Kildare, Lew Ayres, and the love of his life Nurse Mary Lamont, Larrine Day, have nothing but blue birds singing and blue and sunny skies ahead of them with absolutely no rain or dark clouds in sight.
Preparing for her forthcoming marriage, that's to take place the very next day, Mary walking down the street at night with her mind on her future husband Jimmy Kildare instead of the traffic steps off the curb and is run down by a truck fatally injuring her. Showing up at the hospital for a stag or bachelor party before he's hitched, to Mary Lamont, Dr. Kildare is devastated to find that Mary is near death from injuries suffered in a traffic accident. Even though the dying Mary, as well as his mentor Dr. Gillespie,Lionel Barrymore, told Jimmy Kildare to continue his work as a man of medicine he completely loses his interest in being a doctor and just slinks away into oblivion where no one not even his parents Dr. Stephen and Martha Kildare, Samuel H. Hinds & Emma Dunn,can find him.
It takes a lot of effort on the part of Dr. Gillespie to get Jimmy Kildare to forget his grief and get back to the business of helping people. It also takes, with Jimmy Kildare's insistence, the stubborn and bull headed Dr. Gillespie to agree to take time off from work and check into a sanitarium for the treatment of a possible cancerous tumor which his friend, and the administrate of the sanitarium, Dr. Lockerg (miles Mander) wanted him to do. The tumor luckily for Dr. Gillespie turns out to be benign.
After feeling that he just doesn't have it anymore Jimmy Kildare's life is turned around when he's given the task of curing famous and world renowned musical conductor Constanzo Lbardi,Nils Asther, from his tone deftness that is slowly driving the man, who lives only for his music, insane. Kildare reluctantly takes up Labardi's case and before you know it his ability to cure people comes back with, for lack of a better word, a vengeance.
It's too much spaghetti on the part of Labardi's diet that's causing his problem and with him cutting down on pasta, that he loves almost as much as music. Being put on a strict vitamin B1 treatment regiment Labardi's hearing is restored and so is the the talent that he has in putting so much joy into the hearts and lies of millions of his fans and music lovers.
In the end Jimmy, now again Doctor, Kildare finds himself and realizes what Mary Lamont told him on her death bed to continue his work in saving and making peoples lives, like conductor Labardi, easier and more bearable to live. Mary is gone forever from the grief-stricken Dr. Kildare's life but the way to remember her is not to feel sorry but to go on with his work. The work that Mary Lamont when she was alive saw as Jimmy Kildare's greatest gift. A gift what more then anything else had her fall in love with him.
Preparing for her forthcoming marriage, that's to take place the very next day, Mary walking down the street at night with her mind on her future husband Jimmy Kildare instead of the traffic steps off the curb and is run down by a truck fatally injuring her. Showing up at the hospital for a stag or bachelor party before he's hitched, to Mary Lamont, Dr. Kildare is devastated to find that Mary is near death from injuries suffered in a traffic accident. Even though the dying Mary, as well as his mentor Dr. Gillespie,Lionel Barrymore, told Jimmy Kildare to continue his work as a man of medicine he completely loses his interest in being a doctor and just slinks away into oblivion where no one not even his parents Dr. Stephen and Martha Kildare, Samuel H. Hinds & Emma Dunn,can find him.
It takes a lot of effort on the part of Dr. Gillespie to get Jimmy Kildare to forget his grief and get back to the business of helping people. It also takes, with Jimmy Kildare's insistence, the stubborn and bull headed Dr. Gillespie to agree to take time off from work and check into a sanitarium for the treatment of a possible cancerous tumor which his friend, and the administrate of the sanitarium, Dr. Lockerg (miles Mander) wanted him to do. The tumor luckily for Dr. Gillespie turns out to be benign.
After feeling that he just doesn't have it anymore Jimmy Kildare's life is turned around when he's given the task of curing famous and world renowned musical conductor Constanzo Lbardi,Nils Asther, from his tone deftness that is slowly driving the man, who lives only for his music, insane. Kildare reluctantly takes up Labardi's case and before you know it his ability to cure people comes back with, for lack of a better word, a vengeance.
It's too much spaghetti on the part of Labardi's diet that's causing his problem and with him cutting down on pasta, that he loves almost as much as music. Being put on a strict vitamin B1 treatment regiment Labardi's hearing is restored and so is the the talent that he has in putting so much joy into the hearts and lies of millions of his fans and music lovers.
In the end Jimmy, now again Doctor, Kildare finds himself and realizes what Mary Lamont told him on her death bed to continue his work in saving and making peoples lives, like conductor Labardi, easier and more bearable to live. Mary is gone forever from the grief-stricken Dr. Kildare's life but the way to remember her is not to feel sorry but to go on with his work. The work that Mary Lamont when she was alive saw as Jimmy Kildare's greatest gift. A gift what more then anything else had her fall in love with him.