Come to the Stable

Jul 27, 1949

1h 34m

★ 6.6

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Come to the Stable Trailers

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Cast

Sister Margaret

Loretta Young

Sister Scholastica

Celeste Holm

Robert Masen

Hugh Marlowe

Amelia Potts

Elsa Lanchester

Luigi Rossi

Thomas Gomez

Kitty

Dorothy Patrick

The Bishop

Basil Ruysdael

Anthony James

Dooley Wilson

Monsignor Talbot

Regis Toomey

Sam

Mike Mazurki

Claude Jarman (uncredited)

Walter Baldwin

Nun (uncredited)

Pati Behrs

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