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That Mothers Might Live (1938) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1938 · 10 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Fred Zinnemann
- Starring
- William Bailey, Shepperd Strudwick, Ralph Brooks, Edward Van Sloan, King Baggot, Mary Howard
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, this 1938 short drama recounts physician Ignaz Semmelweis’s finding that hand‑washing in 19th‑century maternity wards cut maternal deaths and his fight for acceptance. His ideas were endorsed by Louis Pasteur’s germ theory and Joseph Lister’s antiseptic surgery. The film won the 1939 Oscar for Best Short Subject (One‑Reel).
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