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 …
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