![]() ![]() ![]() Share I Married a Doctor (1936) is not a madcap comedy, as the title might have you think. ![]() One afternoon, Carol does return, having learned that there are small minds everywhere and that her love for Will is what is important. Will is so sure that she will come back that he waits every afternoon for the train from the city. After she is gone, the townspeople hypocritically claim to miss her. All her efforts to fit in have failed, and although Will begs her to stay, she takes the next train out of town. When Carol realizes that the whole town blames her for Erik's death, she decides to leave. In despair, Erik gets drunk and is killed in a car crash. She is stunned, admitting that she sees him only as a friend. At Will's suggestion, Erik asks Carol to leave with him. Erik, himself, is sure that Carol is in love with him and says as much to Will. His parents are convinced that she has seduced him. In a gesture of support, she encourages him to leave the farm and study architecture in the city. ![]() She befriends Erik Valborg, a young man with artistic inclinations. She further alienates everyone with her suggestions on how to fix up the town, which they all think looks fine the way it is. Carol is determined to make friends, but the town's women resent her popularity with the men. Kennicott marries Carol, a Chicago woman, the townspeople are displeased that he has married an outsider. ![]()
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