The Dionne Quintuplets

Overview

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Annette Dionne

Self (Archive Footage)

Cécile Dionne

Self (Archive Footage)

Émilie Dionne

Self (Archive Footage)

Marie Dionne

Self (Archive Footage)

Yvonne Dionne

Self (Archive Footage)

Pierre Berton

Narrator

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