The Dionne Quintuplets: We're Two Years Old (Whitman 942)

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Stapled Binding. Good. 0x0x0. A few pencil marks on wrappers, minor wear to corners, sticker on back corner, pages toned. 1936 Stapled Binding. The Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross, which paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935, which made them wards of the Crown until the age of 18. All five survived to adulthood. The Dionne girls starred in three Hollywood feature films, which were essentially fictionalized versions of their story. They played the "Wyatt quintuplets" in all three films, which included The Country Doctor, Reunion, and Five of a Kind. The Dionne quintuplets also appeared in numerous newsreels and a short documentary film called Five Times Five in 1939. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-reel) in 1940.