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I’m thinking about all those dedicated, overwhelmed doctors, nurses, and technicians, providing care at grave risk to their own health and safety. Just how do we protect them, and then, how do we thank them properly? In tribute to their crucial, courageous work, here are ten top titles that feature doctors and nurses — some noble, others less so. 

There are some celebrities who, by virtue of what they represent and contribute beyond their talent, become something more than simply what their chosen profession would indicate. Such a man is Sidney Poitier, the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar.

In 1947, a successful young radio actor named Richard Widmark arrived at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood to try out for his first film. His hope was to be cast in “Kiss of Death,” another in a series of dark crime dramas popular after the Second War which would eventually become known as “film noir.”