That Mothers Might Live
This short film tells the story of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), the Hungarian physician who was the first to realize that the deaths of new mothers could be significantly reduced simply by requiring doctors to wash their hands before treating a patient.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Barbara Bedford, Beatrice Roberts, John Nesbitt, King Baggot, Leonard Penn, Mary Howard, Ralph Brooks, Rudolph Anders, Shepperd Strudwick, William Bailey