On 28 May 1934 he assisted in the multiple births of the Dionne family, that saw the survival of the mother and all the children.
Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, a reference to the Dionne quintuplets.
Dionne quintuplets: Born in 1934, the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.
Musical entertainments are provided by Dame Edna May Oliver as "The Lady in Red", the Dionne quintuplets (who were in reality only two years old at the time) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.
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There were also at least two notable physicians in the family: an uncle, Dr William Allan Dafoe, who was to influence Colin Dafoe's decision to pursue a medical career, and his son Dr Allan Roy Dafoe, who later moved to the remote northern town of Callander, Ontario, where he would rise to international celebrity as the country doctor who delivered the Dionne Quintuplets on May 28, 1934.