''Five Times Five'' is a 1939 American

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directed by Frank P. Donovan. It was nominated for an

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at the

12th Academy Awards The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted ...

in 1940 for Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel. The

Dionne quintuplets The Dionne quintuplets (; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood. The Dionn ...

have a private five-years-old birthday party in their garden.

Cast

Alexander Woollcott Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio p ...

as Commentary * The

(Annette, Cecile, Emile, Yvonne and Marie) * Allan R. Dafoe (as Dr. Roy Dafoe) as Quintuplets' doctor

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* 1939 films 1939 documentary films 1930s short documentary films Black-and-white documentary films Documentary films about children RKO Pictures short films Films shot in Ontario 1939 in Canada Films about birthdays American short documentary films American black-and-white films Quintuplets 1930s English-language films 1930s American films Films directed by Frank P. Donovan {{short-documentary-film-stub