Come To The Stable.
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✎ Suggest a correctionPious innocence triumphs over worldliness in this comedy about two nuns who obtain aid from a gangster, a songwriter, and a painter in order to establish a children's hospital. Setting, a small town in Connecticut.
Two French sisters, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem to build a children's hospital. Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign. The Sisters acquire for $5,000 a three-month option on a former witch-hazel bottling plant opposite the Rossi property for use as a temporary shelter to stage the construction of the hospital. However, when the Bishop looks over the papers, he discovers that the purchase price carries a $25,000 mortgage, significantly more than the
Two French sisters, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem to build a children's hospital. Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign. The Sisters acquire for $5,000 a three-month option on a former witch-hazel bottling plant opposite the Rossi property for use as a temporary shelter to stage the construction of the hospital. However, when the Bishop looks over the papers, he discovers that the purchase price carries a $25,000 mortgage, significantly more than the
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28Jul49 L2617, renewed 3Aug76 R639121 Renewal claimant: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 28Jul49; LP2617.
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COME TO THE STABLE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 94 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on a story by Clare Boothe Luce. Summary: Pious innocence triumphs over worldliness in this comedy about two nuns who obtain aid from a gangster, a songwriter, and a painter in order to establish a children's hospital. Setting, a small town in Connecticut. Credits: Producer, Samuel G. Engel; director, Henry Koster; screenplay, Oscar Millard, Sally Benson; music, Cyril Mockridge; music director, Lionel Newman; film editor, William Reynolds. Cast: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 28Jul49; LP2617.
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