WAC Double Features: The White Sister (1923 & 1933) "Bags & Backpacks"

WAC Double Features: The White Sister (1923 & 1933) "Bags & Backpacks"Two of acting's great alchemists, Lillian Gish and Helen Hayes, take the same role 10 years apart and transform melodrama into art. They each portray Angela Chiaromonte, a sheltered Italian beauty consumed by grief when her soldier sweetheart is reported killed in World War I. Angela seeks solace as a nun, foregoing human passion for the peace of God's love. Then her beloved returns, begging her to renounce her vows. In the 1923 Silent directed by

Just point her in the direction of New York's millionaires

new ones are made--and from that night on

Daffy Duck

who has waited half a century to join his departed bride

Griffith Biograph player Blanche Sweet

whose gentle charm and beauty are ideal for the role

This first talkie film version is a charmer

he doesn't realize that he's just insured the most notorious gangster in the city

The quiet authority that marks the Western performances of Alan Ladd (Shane) is on display in this tale based on a novel by renowned cowboy chronicler Louis L'Amour

Every rental is rented

transforming the whirlwind courtship into a love triangle

too: Myrna Loy