Moviehouse Productions latest story chronicles the intersecting lives of Philadelphia physician Dr. William Williams Keen and President Grover Cleveland.
Dr. Keen was the father of American surgery. He saved countless lives during the Civil War and future conflicts by championing the need for modern, sanitary conditions for medical care. Keen performed America’s first successful brain surgery.
Grover Cleveland overcame scandal to become the only U.S. President to serve two non- consecutive terms.
In a secret operation on New York’s East River in 1893, Dr. Keen saved Grover Cleveland’s life by removing a malignant jaw tumor. Mr. Cleveland died many years later of unrelated causes.
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