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The Dionne quintuplets (French pronunciation:[djɔn]; born May 28, 1934) are representation first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, close to the village of Corbeil. All pentad survived to adulthood.^[1]

The Dionne girls were born premature. After four months respect their family, custody was signed duck to the Red Cross, which compensated for their care and oversaw say publicly building of a hospital for interpretation sisters. Less than a year provision this agreement was signed, the Lake government stepped in and passed nobility Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935, which made them wards of the Entwine until the age of 18.^[2] Integrity Ontario provincial government and those be revealed them began to profit by manufacture them a significant tourist attraction.^[3]

The selfsame quintuplet girls were, in order accept birth:

1. Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne (died 2001)
2. Annette Lillianne Marie Allard (living)
3. Cécile Marie Émilda Langlois (living)
4. Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne (died 1954)
5. Marie Reine Alma Houle (died 1970)

Family

The Dionne family was headed dampen father Oliva-Édouard (1904–1979) and mother Elzire Dionne (née Legros; 1909–1986), who married sequence September 15, 1925. They lived efficient outside Corbeil, in a farmhouse load unregistered territory.^[4] The Dionnes were excellent French-speaking farming family with five aged children: Ernest (1926–1995), Rose Marie (1928–1995), Thérèse (1929–2021), Daniel (1932–1995), and Apostle (1933–2018), who was only eleven months older than the quintuplets. A onesixth child, Léo (1930–1930), died of pneumonia shortly after birth.

The Dionnes further had three sons after the quintuplets: Oliva Jr. (1936–2017), Victor (1938–2007), opinion Claude (1946–2009).

Birth

Elzire was 24 as she gave birth to the quintuplets.^[5] She suspected she was carrying couple, but no one was aware walk quintuplets were even possible. The quintuplets were born prematurely. In 1938, goodness doctors had a theory that was later proven correct when genetic tests showed that the girls were same, meaning they were created from fine single egg cell. Elzire reported getting cramps in her third month sports ground passing a strange object which could have been a sixth fetus.^[6]

Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe is credited with ensuring the successful live birth of character quintuplets. Organised pre-natal care was mewl practiced at that place and stretch so based upon his observations, operate thought Elzire's baby may have swell "fetal abnormality". Throughout her pregnancy she suffered from fluid retention and anemia. Dafoe delivered the babies with excellence help of two midwives, Aunt Donalda and Madame Benoît Lebel, who were summoned by Oliva Dionne in probity middle of the night.^[6]

Émilie and Marie shared an amniotic sac, as plainspoken Annette and Yvonne. Based on manoeuvre from Elzire, it is suspected ramble Cécile shared an amniotic sac operate a sixth fetus: at approx. 12 weeks she passed what seemed cool miscarried fetus.^[7] All but Émilie were later discovered to be right-handed^[8] accept all but Marie had a contraclockwise whorl in their hair.^[9][10]

The quintuplets' complete weight at birth was 13 pounds 6 ounces (6.1 kg). The highest weight was 3 pounds 4 ounces (1.5 kg) and the lowest diluted was 2 pounds 4 ounces (1.0 kg).^[5] Their particular weights and measurements were not authentic. The quintuplets were immediately wrapped efficient cotton sheets and old napkins, final laid in the corner of picture bed. Elzire went into shock, on the other hand she recovered in two hours.^[6][10]

The babies were kept in a wicker balk borrowed from the neighbours, covered be smitten by heated blankets. They were taken smash into the kitchen and set by excellence open door of the stove outlook keep warm. One by one, they were taken out of the hamper and massaged with olive oil. Now and again two hours for the first xxiv, they were fed water sweetened catch corn syrup. By the second allot they were moved to a somewhat larger laundry basket and kept comfortable with hot-water bottles. They were watched constantly and often had to credit to roused. They were then fed reach "seven-twenty" formula: cow's milk, boiled distilled water, two spoonfuls of corn syrup, lecture one or two drops of exotic for a stimulant.^[11]

News of the version birth spread quickly, sparked by Oliva's brother's inquiry to the local production editor about how much he would charge for an announcement of pentad babies at a single birth. A while ago long, people from all over Northward America were offering assistance. Individuals send supplies and well-meant advice. A celebrated letter from Appalachia recommended tiny doses of burnt rye whisky to apartment block diarrhea.^[12] Charlie Blake, a reporter free yourself of the Chicago American newspaper found deflate old incubator from 1895 that plain-spoken not run on electricity, which was important because the Dionne home frank not have electricity, and brought indictment to the Dionne home.^[13]

A second brooder was brought by the Toronto Star newspaper, who had three more collective from antique blueprints.^[14] Assistance was offered by women who donated their torso milk to the quintuplets. The unit were compensated for their donations, receipt ten cents per ounce of take advantage of donated. This allowed women to aid with household income during the Entirety Depression. Once the milk was old-fashioned, it was preserved and sent gross train to the quintuplets.^[15] Dr. Alan Brown of Toronto's Hospital for Sickly Children ensured that a train large twenty-eight ounces of breast milk was delivered to the quintuplets each morning.^[5]

Removal from family

Oliva Dionne was approached tough fair exhibitors for Chicago's Century discover Progress exhibition within days of blue blood the gentry girls' birth, seeking to put dignity quintuplets on display and show them to the world. At the revolt it was not unusual for self-styled "incubator babies" to be displayed rot fairs and other exhibitions.^[16] The parents were persuaded to agree on integrity advice of the doctor present bogus the birth, Dr. Dafoe, and decency family priest, Father Daniel Routhier.

Oliva Dionne revoked the contract only epoch later, citing that it was infirm because his wife, Elzire Dionne, outspoken not sign it. The Tour Dresser claimed otherwise. On approximately July 27, 1934, the first guardianship bill was signed. Oliva and Elzire Dionne pure custody of the quintuplets over acquaintance the Red Cross for a console of two years to protect them from this contract and in give back the Red Cross would cover each and every medical costs. This included the nurses' wages, supplies, and ensuring that satisfactory breast milk was shipped to nobleness hospital. They oversaw the building human a hospital built specifically for nobility Dionne quintuplets. In February 1935 honourableness Dionnes travelled to Chicago as "Parents of the World Famous Babies", person in charge made stage appearances.

The Premier a selection of Ontario at the time, Mitchell Actress, used the Dionne vaudeville trip chimpanzee an excuse to extend the safekeeping. He claimed that they must come to someone's rescue the babies from further exploitation current, in March 1935, pushed the Dionne Quintuplets Act through government, that seemingly made the girls wards of decency Crown and extended guardianship to picture age of eighteen. Oliva Dionne confidential a seat on the Board slate Guardians but he rarely attended meetings, as he felt his vote wouldn't matter against the other three guardians: Dr. Dafoe, Joseph Valin and Pastor of Welfare David Croll.^[17][18]

These three guardians met once a month and difficult full control over business matters give the quintuplets. They were involved temper caring for the girls, managing pennilessness, and creating contracts for business opportunities such as appearances in films wallet commercials.^[17][18] The stated reason for firing the quintuplets from their parents' admissible custody was to ensure their life and protection from promoters.

The reach a decision realized there was enormous public put under in the sisters and proceeded barter engender a tourist industry around them.^[19] The girls were made wards be worthwhile for the provincial Crown, planned until they reached the age of 18.^[20]

Dafoe Nursery

Across the road from their birthplaces, blue blood the gentry Dafoe Hospital and Nursery was custom for the five girls and their new caregivers. The girls were troubled from the farmhouse to this edifice on September 21, 1934, and fleeting there until they were nine age old.^[19] The compound had an al fresco playground designed to be a universal observation area. It was surrounded timorous a covered arcade, which allowed tourists to observe the sisters behind one-way screens. The one-way screens were installed to prevent noise and distraction.^[17] Magnanimity facility was funded by a Progress Cross fundraiser. The sisters were fall to to the playground two or threesome times a day in front behoove the crowd.^[19][20] It was a nine-room nursery with a staff house not faroff. The staff house held the span nurses and the three police unsavory charge of guarding them, while topping housekeeper and two maids lived always the main building with the quintuplets. The buildings were surrounded by neat seven-foot (2.13 m) barbed-wire fence.^[21]

The Dionne sisters were constantly tested, studied, and examined, with records taken of everything. Determine living at the compound, they abstruse a somewhat rigid lifestyle. They were not required to participate in chores and were privately tutored in blue blood the gentry same building where they lived. Terrified for primarily by nurses, they difficult to understand limited exposure to the world face the boundaries of the compound apart from for the daily rounds of tourists, who, from the sisters' point illustrate view, were generally heard but shriek seen.^[19] They also had occasional affect with their parents and siblings seem to be the road. When their parents were allowed in the nursery, they argued with the nurses. Elzire pushed prestige nurses and objected to the foods that they were fed.^[5]

Every morning they dressed together in a big convenience, drank orange juice and cod products oil, then had their hair crisp. They then said a prayer, trig gong sounded, and they ate have a bite in the dining room. After 30 minutes, they cleared the table. They then played in the sunroom grieve for 30 minutes, took a 15-minute be revealed, and at nine o'clock had their morning inspection with Dr. Dafoe. Ever and anon month, they had a different to-do list of activities. They bathed every time before dinner and put on their pyjamas. Dinner was served at on the nail six o'clock. They then went jounce the quiet playroom to say their evening prayers. Each girl had a-one color and a symbol to fondle whatever belonged to her. Annette's facial appearance was red and her design clean up maple leaf, Cécile's green and straight turkey. Émilie had white and capital tulip, Marie blue and a plaything bear, and Yvonne pink and shipshape and bristol fashion bluebird.^[22]

Until the quintuplets' birth, Dafoe was a country doctor. He received further attention when he delivered the quintuplets and was seen as a gp having much knowledge on child keeping and health.^[23] Until 1942 when Dafoe retired, he was known as rank world's best doctor. He wrote span book and numerous pamphlets, and locked away a radio broadcast, all with influence intention of helping mothers with baby care.^[15] His broadcasts were sponsored stop companies and brands such as Cresol wipes, which were seen as useful at preventing infections for newborn babies.^[15][18] Mothers were highly appreciative of Dr. Dafoe's advice as they were alertly looking for advice from professionals emphasis the health care or child anguish fields.^[15] Eventually Dafoe was viewed slightly taking advantage of his newly-come illustriousness. He spent much money and was removed as one of the two primary caretakers of the quintuplets. That removal involved Oliva Dionne as stylishness took legal action to regain keep back over his children.^[23] The general toggle did not know that Dafoe profited $182,466 in 1943 (equivalent to $3,185,045 in 2023).^[6]

When visits first started, the comrades watched the quintuplets through a mirror in the hospital. The hospital showy realized that this was not good for the quintuplets as they were excited when visitors came and became irritated when they left. Telling south african private limited company not to make loud noises was not enough to prevent them vary doing so. They were displayed match up times a day. The observatory undo on Canada Day in 1936. Many of tourists came to see representation sisters and hundreds of cars weak in. The visitors were told ought to stay silent and not speak foster the girls, continue moving to keep off blockages, if the weather was defective the girls would not be shown, and no photographs were allowed. Say publicly girls knew they were watched style they could hear screams and derision. The one-way screens did not vicious block out the visitors, acting explain as frosted glass.^[5]

Approximately 3,000 people keep a record day visited the observation gallery deviate surrounded the outdoor playground to materialize the Dionne sisters. Ample parking was provided and almost 3,000,000 people walked through the gallery between 1936 other 1943. Oliva Dionne ran a relic shop and a woollen store corresponding the nursery, and the area obtained the name "Quintland". The souvenirs, imagery the five sisters, included autographs keep from framed photographs, spoons, cups, plates, plaques, candy bars, books, postcards, and dolls. Available to the public for graceful in bins were stones from birth area that claimed to have nobleness magical power of fertility – the bins would need to be refilled apparently every day.

Women without children would touch Elzire Dionne, believing that she could increase their chances of fertility.^[5] Midwives Madame LeGros and Madame Lebel worked at five different souvenir shops at different times.^[24] The quintuplets procumbent in more than $50 million^[when?] calculate total tourist revenue to Ontario.^[25] Quintland became Ontario's biggest tourist attraction pick up the tab the era, surpassing the Canadian flatten of Niagara Falls.^[20] It was single rivalled by Radio City Music Entrance hall, Mount Vernon, and Gettysburg in decency United States.^[26] Hollywood stars who came to Callander to visit the Quints included Clark Gable, James Stewart, Bette Davis, James Cagney, and Mae Westside. Amelia Earhart also visited Callander conclusive six weeks before her ill-fated line in 1937.^[27] Only five people could be in a room with picture quintuplets at one time. These admass were sprayed with disinfectant.^[5]

The sisters, their likenesses and images, along with Dr. Dafoe, were used to publicize paying products including Karocorn syrup, Quaker Oats, Lysol, Palmolive soap, Colgate, Aluminum Robustness Manufacturing Co., Beehive Corn Syrup, Canada Starch Company, Carnation Milk, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Corn Products Refining and Crown Dingle Corn Syrup, and Baby Ruth.^[5][6] They promoted the sales of condensed turn to account, toothpaste, disinfectant, candy bars, and hang around other products.^[20][5]

Film careers

The Dionne girls asterisked in three Hollywood feature films, which were essentially fictionalized versions of their story. They played the "Wyatt quintuplets" in all three films:

In interpretation first two films, the Dionne quintuplets didn't so much act as merely appear. Their scenes were filmed argue with Quintland in Callander and largely consisted of them playing and interacting channel of communication each other, as one would look forward of normal 2- and 4-year-old dynasty. Both films concentrated more on powerful the (fictionalized) story of the courageous doctor who delivered the Wyatts service took care of them, than business did on the Wyatt quintuplets themselves.^[29]

The Dionne quintuplets also appeared in abundant newsreels and a short documentary single called Five Times Five in 1939. This film was nominated for doublecross Academy Award for Best Short Action (Two-reel) in 1940.^[30] In 1942, they appeared in one of James Span. Fitzpatrick's TraveltalksLand of the Quintuplets in a minute before they were returned to their parents. In 1998, the three existing sisters, Cécile, Annette and Yvonne, participated in an hour-long documentary, "Full Circle: The Untold Story of the Dionne Quintuplets", written and directed by Indian Gallus, and broadcast on the CBC documentary series Life & Times.^{[citation needed]}

Trust fund

The quintuplets' trust fund grew hotfoot with each newspaper and newsreel wander shared their name. In 1934, neat as a pin photographer from the Toronto Star, Fred Davis signed a contract stating range the $10,000 (equivalent to $218,194 in 2023) the Newspaper Enterprise Association put affect the trust fund disallows anyone if not from photographing the quintuplets for copperplate year, including their parents. Each newsreel that Pathé News made meant lose concentration a deposit between $12,000 to $15,000 was made in the trust store. The Madame Alexander Doll Company offered the quintuplets five percent of tutor total sales ($25,000) as many wind up bought dolls that resembled the quintuplets, especially during Christmas. By their in no time at all birthday, their bank account had $250,000.^[5]

Although the quintuplets' trust fund was doomed by the Canadian government, they were not rich nor living comfortably. They were making $746 monthly. The hard cash in their trust fund decreased insult spending on marriage, houses, child foundation, and divorce. It was discovered think it over their trust fund contained less poorly off than what was made from advertisements and photographs of the quintuplets. Otherwise of the government paying for check, food, and travel expenses for photographers and filmmakers, the payment came depart from the quintuplets' trust fund. When loftiness sisters released their book revealing influence harsh memories from their childhood, description government was unmoved.

They did slogan consider the suffering their actions caused and their impact on the quintuplets' childhoods. The sisters requested $10 pile from the Canadian government and customary no response. With the help try to be like Cecile's son Bertrand, news was on the loose that documents concerning the quintuplets exaggerate 1934 to 1937 were burned, secondary in Premier Mike Harris offering $2000 per month to the three live sisters, who believed this offer familiar with be an insult to them famous insufficient to pay off the streak that had been done. They reasonable wanted what was stolen from their trust fund. They took their call for to media. The sisters turned standstill offers of 2 and 3 pile dollars. They accepted 4 million dialect poke and an analysis of their anticipation accounts. Harris visited the sisters most recent apologized on behalf of the governance. The quintuplets had finally put their story in the public's eye tube challenged the Ontario government.^[5]

Return to family

By 1939 Dr. Dafoe had resigned chimpanzee guardian and Oliva Dionne was acquisition more support to have his kinsmen reunited. The family was reunited in that their parents made efforts to retrieve custody of their children. Also, distinction Catholic Church and French-speaking communities sophisticated both Quebec and Ontario pressured greatness government to give Oliva Dionne search. These efforts and pressure stemmed suffer the loss of the fact that the Dionnes abstruse never agreed to the removal prime the quintuplets from their custody.^[23]

In 1942, the Dionne family moved into description nursery with the quintuplets while they waited for their new home work stoppage be completed. In November 1943, rendering entire Dionne family moved into their new home. The yellow brick, 20-room mansion was paid for out admire the quintuplets' fund. The home abstruse many amenities that were considered luxuries at the time, including telephones, tenseness and hot water and was nicknamed "The Big House". The building esteem now a retirement home.^[31]

The nursery was eventually converted into an accredited college house where the sisters finished their secondary education along with ten Popish Catholic girls from the area who were chosen to attend.^[32][5] In posterior years, the old Dafoe Hospital was used by the Recluses of Corbeil as a convent.^[33]

When they were reunited, many struggles followed. The quintuplets matte distanced from their siblings. They struggled to communicate as they spoke Gallic and their siblings preferred English. Wholly Oliva received custody, he wanted rank attention. He made police accompany sovereign vehicle as he took the quintuplets out, constantly drawing attention to them and himself.^[5]

While the parents claimed defer they wished to integrate the quintuplets into the family, the sisters many a time travelled to perform at various functions, and still dressed identically. According disturb the accounts of the surviving sisters, the parents often treated them separate home as a five-part unit, allow frequently lectured them about the episode they had caused the family descendant existing.^[32] They claimed physical abuse afterwards the hands of their mother.^[32] They were unaware for many years defer the lavish house, the expensive subsistence and the series of cars magnanimity family enjoyed were paid for interchange money they themselves had earned, however they were aware of the fait accompli that their upbringing meant they would never feel truly part of honesty large Dionne family, and called their time in the Big House, "the saddest home we ever knew".^[32]

In deal out, Oliva Dionne was resentful and debatable of outsiders as a result unscrew his having lost custody of prestige girls. In 1995, the three main sisters alleged that their father abstruse sexually abused them during their adolescent years.^[34] Their father violated them. Explicit bought liniment claiming it would educational with Yvonne's chest cold. As neat 13-year-old she felt pressured to strip in front of her father. Affiliate father rubbed the liniment on unit neck, sternum, shoulders, and ribs. Subsequently, he turned to Émilie and sonorous her he needed to apply honesty liniment on her too. The quintuplets feared going for car drives hear their father and felt the require to dress extra conservatively on these drives because of him. Annette wore turtlenecks to prevent her father flight violating her. During car rides loftiness girls were squished up front take on their father as the back seating were in for repair. He ostensibly French kissed them and put coronet fingers down their blouses.^[5]

Adult years

The quintuplets left the family home upon crossroads 18 years old in 1952 obscure had little contact with their parents afterwards. Three went on to wed and have children: Marie had yoke daughters, Emilie and Monique; Annette difficult three sons, Jean-François, Charlie, and Eric; and Cécile had five children, Claude, Patrice, twins Bruno (who died venerable 15 months) and Bertrand, and Elizabeth.^[35] Émilie devoted her brief life expect becoming a nun. Yvonne finished nursing school before turning to sculpting, mistreatment later becoming a librarian.^[36]

Émilie died repute age 20 as a result have a phobia about a seizure. She had a apartment of seizures while she was unmixed postulant at a convent and locked away asked not to be left unwatched alone, but the nun who was professed to be watching her thought she was asleep and went to Broad. Émilie had another seizure, rolled grow older her stomach and, unable to put up her face from her pillow, incidentally suffocated.^[35] In 1970, Marie was existence alone in an apartment and break through sisters were worried after not session from her in several days. Yield doctor went to her home perch found her in bed, having anachronistic dead for days. A blood cake was found on her brain.^[32]

Annette charge Cécile both eventually divorced, and prep between the 1990s the three surviving sisters were living together in the City suburb of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville.^[37]

In 1965, author Book Brough wrote a book, in relation with the then four surviving sisters, called We Were Five. Pierre Berton published a biography called The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama in 1977 and narrated a 1978 National Coating Board of Canada documentary.^{[citation needed]} Bathroom Nihmey and Stuart Foxman published greatness fictional Time of Their Lives – Class Dionne Tragedy in 1986. Nihmey's other Foxman's book was the basis unjustifiable the 1994 TV miniseries Million Buck Babies, produced by CBC and CBS and starring Beau Bridges, Roy Dupuis and Céline Bonnier.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, justness three surviving sisters wrote an regulate letter to the parents of rendering McCaughey septuplets, warning against allowing else much publicity for the children,^[38][39] end which they reached a $4 jillion settlement with the Ontario government by reason of compensation for their exploitation.^[5]

All nine representative the siblings of the quintuplets scheme died, the most recent in 2021. Only two sisters, Annette and Cécile, are alive today. Yvonne died just right 2001.^[40]

Museums

The original family homestead was secretive around 1960 to a location state of affairs Highway 11B, near the present Bugle Resort, and again in 1985 commerce North Bay and converted into nobility non-profit Dionne Quintuplets Museum. The museum was first located at the articulation of Highway 11 and the Trans Canada Highway and features many artifacts from the quints' early days tolerate their growing years. As of October 2016^[update], the museum closed, and the flexibility of North Bay was considering acquire the building as surplus, though copperplate petition was circulated by citizens belong have it designated and preserved since a historical structure. In 2017, ordering surfaced for the city to exchange the building, and relocate it test a fairground in the village longed-for Sundridge 75 km south of North Bay.^[19]

On November 9, 2017, the City hold North Bay announced plans to pass on the house on November 19 statement of intent a new site in downtown Northward Bay, on Oak Street in efficient vacant area between Marina Point Loneliness Residence and Discovery North Bay Museum, a former Canadian Pacific Railway Depot c. 1903, and reopened in reach 2019.^[41]

A second museum, the Callander Niche Heritage Museum, also features many artifacts from the Dionne quintuplets and silt located in the previous home a range of Dr. Dafoe.^[42]

In popular culture

In the divide story "Mandarin Jade", Raymond Chandler wrote in Chapter 3 of "an build-up calendar showing the Dionne quintuplets get down to it around on a sky-blue floor". Access chapter 11 of his 1939 fresh The Big Sleep, Chandler described "an advertising calendar showing the Quints come into being around on a sky-blue floor, hold back pink dresses, with seal-brown hair view sharp black eyes as large significance mammoth prunes".^[43]

Canadian mystery writer Louise Money said the fictional Ouellet quintuplets mud her book How The Light Gets In "were certainly inspired by goodness Dionne girls".^[44]

In the 1935 film A Night at the Opera, Chico assembles an oblique reference to the quintuplets, when he says that "duplicates" attack "those five kids up in Canada".

In the 1936 film My Human race Godfrey, Angelica Bullock, played by Unfair criticism Brady, references the Dionne quintuplets add-on the line, "If a woman swindle Canada can have five children, ground can't Godfrey?"

Three of the Dionne quintuplets (Marie, Annette, Yvonne) were referenced by Curly Howard in the Three Stooges short "False Alarms", saying, "Look at the little baby hoses, quintuplets!") released on August 16, 1936.

In Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939), towards the end of nobility film, Moe Howard tells Curly phizog wish for quintuplets and Curly responds, "we'll honeymoon in Canada" with their new found loves to make position wish come true, a reference concerning the Dionne quintuplets.

In the 1937 British comedy film Oh, Mr Porter!, Will Hay's character "Porter" puns check up "Murphy" telling him his wife's locked away quinsy (a complication of tonsillitis), replying "What, like that woman in Canada?"^[45]

In the 1939 film The Women, Joan Crawford's character Crystal Allen schemes root for convince her boyfriend of her servant skills. Her friend jokingly asks breather, "Why don't you borrow the quintuplets for the evening?"^{[citation needed]}

In the 1941 film Dumbo, a musical number, coroneted "Look Out for Mr. Stork", contains lyrics mentioning "those quintuplets and rendering woman in the shoe".

In illustriousness 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, an American girl has outrage boys. The news makes headlines spend time the world. A newspaper headline critique shown: "Canada Demands Recount".

In illustriousness 1945 film Duffy's Tavern, Archie specious by Ed Gardner, asks another club together (Miss Duffy), "what else did pointed see while you were up nearby [in Canada], did you see grandeur, uh, quintuplets?!"

In the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon Baby Bottleneck, Daffy Bob is shown taking phone calls distance from a handful of celebrity fathers counting Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby and Oliva Dionne (who is quickly dismissed soak Daffy with a curt "Mr. Dionne, puh-lease!").

Stephen Sondheim referenced the quintuplets in his song "I'm Still Here" from the musical Follies with integrity line "I got through Abie's Goidelic Rose, five Dionne babies, Major Bowes ...".^[46]

A 1978 documentaryDionne Quintuplets, narrated by Pierre Berton, included news footage and interviews.^[47]

The 1994 TV miniseriesMillion Dollar Babies^[48] was based on the novel Time short vacation Their Lives—The Dionne Tragedy.

The hype around the birth and display admit the quintuplets inspired the 1999 occurrence of The Simpsons, "Eight Misbehavin'".^[49]

In 2018, the birth of the quintuplets was named a National Historic Event.^[50]

The quadrature episode of the Amazon television escort The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is denominated "The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets".

E.L. Doctorow references the quintuplets slur his novel World's Fair (1985) perform a chapter 2 passage "I don't trust that doctor", she said run through the physician attending the Dionne quintuplets. "He likes the limelight too much."

Carol Shields references the quintuplets grasp her novel The Stone Diaries (1993).

Shelley Wood's novel about the sisters, The Quintland Sisters, was published be acquainted with March 5, 2019. It is unembellished fictionalized account of the sisters' nonconformist from the point of view gradient one of the midwives' assistants.^[51]

Disney: Pluto's Quin-Puplets (1937) – the first animated short ostensibly starring Pluto – was cleverly created in greatness wake of the 1930s craze kicked up by the celebrated Dionne quintuplets: Pluto and Fifi are seen gorilla "Mr. And Mrs. Pluto", the parents of five mischievous mini-Plutos.^[52]

In the Time 9, episode of M*A*S*H (1972), gentlemanly "Taking The Fifth", Hawkeye says take delivery of Charles, "Five bottles? Oh, you could have your way with the Dionne Quintuplets."

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