Movies
TV Shows
People
27/07/1949 Comedy, Drama 1h 34m
66
User score

Laughs To Make Your Heart Ring Out With Joy!

Overview

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

  1. Henry Koster

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Loretta Young

    Sister Margaret

  2. Celeste Holm

    Sister Scholastica

  3. Hugh Marlowe

    Robert Masen

  4. Elsa Lanchester

    Amelia Potts

  5. Thomas Gomez

    Luigi Rossi

  6. Dorothy Patrick

    Kitty

  7. Basil Ruysdael

    The Bishop

  8. Dooley Wilson

    Anthony James

  9. Regis Toomey

    Monsignor Talbot

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-01
There was always something of the butter wouldn’t melt about Loretta Young but rarely more so in this enjoyable caper of two nuns who set about building a children’s hospital. Her sister “Margaret” has travelled from wartime France with her colleague “Scholastica” (Celeste Holm) and they have arrived at what they reckon, thanks to a nativity at the home of the eccentric “Miss Potts” (Elsa Lanchester), is a divinely inspired site. There’s plenty of land and an old factory for them to use so all they need do now is get the bishop to give them some cash and away they go. Unfortu...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. Little Sister61%
  2. The Bells of St. Mary's68%
  3. Sister Act68%
  4. Best Man Down66%
  5. It Runs in the Family60%
  6. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit63%
  7. Another Thin Man71%
  8. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison69%
  9. Shadow of the Thin Man69%
  10. Black Narcissus75%
  11. Woman of Straw62%
  12. Uptown Girls69%
  13. The Trouble with Angels67%
  14. Sometimes Always Never63%
  15. Madea Goes to Jail - The Play76%
  16. The Song of Bernadette71%
  17. Boomerang!70%
  18. The Trip to Italy63%
  19. The Christmas Shoes68%
  20. Don't Think Twice64%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords