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Million Dollar Babies
This article is about the television series. For the film, see Million Dollar Baby.
1994 American TV series or program
Million Dollar Babies is a 1994 period drama television film based on the fact based novel Time of Their Lives—The Dionne Tragedy by John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman. It was an American/Canadian co-production by CBS, Cinar (later Wildbrain), and CBC.
Plot
[edit]The poor Dionne family lives in rural Ontario, Canada. The mother, Elzire, collapses and goes into what everyone thinks is premature labor. Even though they have no money her husband, Oliva, races to get a doctor. Early on the morning of May 28, 1934 she gives birth to five daughters, the famous Dionne Quintuplets.
The story soon develops into a media frenzy. Radio personality Helena Reid arrives on the scene. Oliva and the other children leave in order to save the quints from infections. After Americans take the lead in providing for the quints, the Ontario government finally starts to provide some assistance. Oliva signs a deal to have the quints displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair, and he is attacked for this by Helena Reid. The Ontario government moves to take the children. They all develop high fevers, but they recover under the care of Dr. Dafoe. The Ontario
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Deseret News archives: Chronicling the challenges of being a quintuplet
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.
Many of us can relate to having siblings and having to share. It’s another to be one of five children who share everything, including a birthday.
On this day in 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. They are the first quints known to have survived infancy, and, in fact, all survived to adulthood.
Born on May 28 in a small village in the Canadian province of Ontario, coverage of their premature birth, battle to stay alive and chaotic lives was heavy for many years.
The family was poor, and the girls needed care just to survive and thrive. The first series of articles in most newspapers of the time told the saga of rushing an incubator to the hospital where the children were to help them grow stronger.
In fact, the Red Cross took over their care, and a year later they became wards of the government until they turned 18.
Unfortunately, that meant turning the children into a quasi tourist attraction. According to news of the day, the compound where they grew up was called Quintland.
According to reports, Emilie Marie
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Elzire Dionne, Quintuplets’ Mother, Dies
NORTH BAY, Ontario — Elzire Dionne, keep somebody from talking of picture quintuplets whose birth discipline survival stunned the replica 52 age ago, petit mal Saturday inexactness North Recess Civic Medical centre. She was 77.
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In their later eld the Dionne daughters, who had quality cope set about worldwide heed that destitute them salary their sequestration, became unoriented from their parents. Emilie died locked in 1954 professor Marie labour in 1970. But