Dionne Quintuplet Opens Flower Shop

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Transcript:

Universal - International News

News In Brief

Voice: Ed Herlihy

Montreal, Can.

A flower shop named in honour of their sister Emilie is formally opened by the four surviving Dionne quintuplets. The shop is the first business venture the quints have undertaken since receiving their inheritance on their twenty-first birthday. Marie will run it, Father Gaston Sauve of Ottawa University gives spiritual blessing to the little store that keeps alive the name of one of the most famous babies of the century. Annette, Cecile and Yvonne say good luck to sister Marie at Salon Emilie.

Credits:

1956-05-21
Universal Newsreels
Production Company: Universal Studios
Run time: 0:00:33

Source: Internet Archive

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1950-59
• people
• geography_quebec
• public_domain
• publicdomain
• quintuplets
• dionne
• quints
• 1956
• montreal
• canada
• canadian
• flower_shop
• flowers
• history

[flon57]

those women got so f***ed by the government, the dr., they should have gotten millions of dollars, for all the stuff they sold with their pics on them

[femaletrumpet02]

Interesting shop. I read in We Were Five (the Quints 1965 book) that one of the first orders for flowers was for one or two of the quints' graduation ceremony (they needed corsages for the graduates and other flowers)

[Sheri451]

I read that the flower shop stayed open a short time because prople took advantage of Marie. They said she was a sweet and vulnerable young woman. She would give the flowers away.