Dr. James Kildare is a
fictional American medical doctor character, originally created in the 1930s by the author
Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name
Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story,
Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film
Internes Can't Take Money.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsequently acquired the rights and featured Kildare as the primary character in a series of
American theatrical
films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several of which were co-written by Faust (as Max Brand), who also continued to write magazine stories and novels about the character until the early 1940s. The Kildare character was later featured in an early 1950s
radio series, a 1960s
television series, a
comic book and
comic strip based on the 1960s TV show, and a short-lived second 1970s television series.