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The Fight for Life

1940 American film

This article is about the 1940 film. For the Jerry Lewis television film produced in 1986, see Fight for Life (film). For other uses, see Fight for Life.

The Fight for Life is a 1940 American medical drama film nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures.

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An uncredited John Steinbeck wrote the narrative portions of the film.[2]

Plot

At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Notes for The Fight for Life in TCM.com
  2. [2]
    Schultz and Li, Jeffrey and Luchen (2005). Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference. Facts on File; X-Library. p. 83. ISBN 0816043000.


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