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Come to the Stable

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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.

Release Date : 1949-07-27

Language :FrenchEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Sister Margaret

Original Name : Loretta Young

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sister Scholastica

Original Name : Celeste Holm

Gender : Female

Character Name : Robert Masen

Original Name : Hugh Marlowe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Amelia Potts

Original Name : Elsa Lanchester

Gender : Female

Character Name : Luigi Rossi

Original Name : Thomas Gomez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kitty

Original Name : Dorothy Patrick

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Bishop

Original Name : Basil Ruysdael

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anthony James

Original Name : Dooley Wilson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Monsignor Talbot

Original Name : Regis Toomey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sam

Original Name : Mike Mazurki

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claude Jarman (uncredited)

Original Name : Walter Baldwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nun (uncredited)

Original Name : Pati Behrs

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rosey (uncredited)

Original Name : John Bleifer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nun (uncredited)

Original Name : Nan Boardman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Howard Sheldon (uncredited)

Original Name : Wally Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Policeman (uncredited)

Original Name : Russ Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nun (uncredited)

Original Name : Louise Colombet

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cherub (uncredited)

Original Name : Teddy Driver

Gender : Male

Character Name : New York City Policeman (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Foulk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Willie Matthews (uncredited)

Original Name : Gordon Gebert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. O'Connor (uncredited)

Original Name : Eula Guy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Al Newman (uncredited)

Original Name : Louis Jean Heydt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Buzz Townsend-Cooper (uncredited)

Original Name : Tim Huntley

Gender : Male

Character Name : George (Jarman's Assistant) (uncredited)

Original Name : Danny Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Townsend-Cooper (uncredited)

Original Name : Virginia Keiley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bethlehem Station Master (uncredited)

Original Name : Nolan Leary

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father Barraud (uncredited)

Original Name : Henri Letondal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Matthews (uncredited)

Original Name : Ian MacDonald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rossi's Manicurist (uncredited)

Original Name : Marion Martin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Whitey (uncredited)

Original Name : Edwin Max

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cherub (uncredited)

Original Name : Roddy McCaskill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Johnnie Matthews (uncredited)

Original Name : Gary Pagett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Matthews (uncredited)

Original Name : Jean Prescott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nun (uncredited)

Original Name : Yvette Reynard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lefty (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Richards

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nun (uncredited)

Original Name : Loulette Sablon

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

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. Unfortunately, he (Basil Ruysdael) hasn’t the cash nor is he convinced that they will ever get the land owner to sell. Undaunted, they set off on that task and so follows a series of amiable escapades involving gangsters, a songwriter who doesn’t really want them in his backyard (Hugh Marlowe), plenty of noisy geese, ducks, jams and the best example of a fully frocked nun playing tennis you are ever likely to see. Is there any doubt as to the conclusion? Well no, indeed that aspect of the film is all rather rushed. It’s the path to that which brings a feel-good factor to the proceedings with these two persistent women staying just the right side of annoying as they mix dedication with a certain degree of serendipity to attain their goal. It has the feel of a Christmas film to it, with messages of humanity and decency writ large; Lanchester plays engagingly as the well-meaning but slightly dotty “Potts” and though I could have been doing with a little more from Holm, she and Young deliver a mischievous blend of tenacity and the silly quite entertainingly.