Our family recently had the chance to see this charming film from 1949 starring Loretta Young. I was under the impression for some reason it was a Christmas film, it wasn't, but it was a very entertaining way to spend a snowy afternoon. Come to the Stable is the story of two French sisters (they call them nuns, but my daughter kept correcting the film!), who have been inspired by events in France during the war to come to the U.S. and build a children's hospital. The sisters have no plan other than to build the hospital in Bethlehem when they arrive. They are met with many obstacles, from where they can stay, to how to gain the Bishop's support, armed only with St. Jude metals. The sisters' innocence and hopefulness delights everyone they encounter. The most hard hearted mobster has no power against their persuasion.
The movie is witty, too, on their first visit to New York, the sisters mistake a parking ticket for an advertisement and tear it up, in front of the police officer who placed it there. The movie does not poke fun at them, but rather the lack of simplicity of those around them. It harkens back to to a time when sisters were respected. Those who know religious sisters now, will find many of the antics of the sisters in the movie even more humorous, envisioning the sisters we know in the same position as those in the film.
One small note, the movie is not available on DVD yet, but it is a view it instantly movie at Netflix.
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Thanks for posting about this, Deb! I watched it recently after reading "Mother Benedict" by Ignatius Press, the biography of the French/American nun who was the founder of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The Abbey nuns wear the traditional Benedictine habit to this day and the nun from "The Cheese Nun" is one of them. For anyone interested in the book I blogged about it athttp://anabragahenebrysjournal.blogspot.com/2007/07/just-finished-fabulous-book.html
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