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Strange Lady in Town is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy released in USA on 12 april 1955 with Greer Garson
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
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Add to a movie listStrange Lady in Town is a 1955 film starring Greer Garson. She plays a female doctor who plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor played by Dana Andrews.
Filmed at Old Tucson, Tucson, Arizona.
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Le docteur Julia Winslow Garth quitte Boston pour une nouvelle vie dans l'Ouest et s'installe près de Santa Fe en 1880. Elle arrive avec des innovations comme le stéthoscope et les antibiotiques.Actors
Greer Garson
(Dr. Julia Winslow Garth)
Dana Andrews
(Dr. Rourke O'Brien)
Cameron Mitchell
(Lt. David Garth)
Lois Smith
(Spurs O'Brien)
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
(Trooper Martinez-Martinez)
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