The Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 19, 1978
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Donald Brittain

The Dionne Quintuplets — Cast

A

Annette Dionne Self (Archive Footage)

C

Cécile Dionne Self (Archive Footage)

É

Émilie Dionne Self (Archive Footage)

M

Marie Dionne Self (Archive Footage)

Y

Yvonne Dionne Self (Archive Footage) Pierre Berton Narrator