The Bells of St. Mary's

Having just wisecracked about the cat, and unexpectedly met the entire faculty, when he’d just come to introduce himself to the Mother Superior and principal, Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), the new priest Fr. O’Malley (Bing Crosby) extemporizes, in The Bells Of St. Mary’s, 1945.

Priest Fr. O’Malley (Bing Crosby) in a visit at the class run by Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman) observes the work of Luther (Jimmy Crane) and new pupil Patsy (Joan Carroll), about whose circumstances he’s better informed, in director Leo McCarey’s The Bells Of St. Mary’s, 1945.

Famous bit in which athletically-inclined Mother Superior and principal Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), having just studied Gene Tunney’s book on boxing, imparts what she’s learned to schoolyard bullying victim Eddie (Dickie Tyler), directed by Leo McCarey, in The Bells Of St. Mary’s, 1945.

Opening the sequel to Going My Way, 1944, Bing Crosby reprising his Academy Award-winning role as Fr. O’Malley (directed by Leo McCarey, who’d just won an Oscar for that previous film), meeting Una O’Connor as Mrs. Breen, in The Bells Of St. Mary’s, 1945, also starring 1944 Academy Award winner (for Gaslight), Ingrid Bergman.

A liberal priest (Bing Crosby) and a strict nun (Ingrid Bergman) clash in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945).