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Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Sisters From France Jumped by director Henry Koster from the idyllic village where they first arrived, the sisters (Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as Margaret and Scolastica), seeking land for their school, appear in the offices of a New England bishop (Basil Ruysdael), received by his aide (Regis Toomey), in Come To The Stable, 1949.

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Take Your Wings Off Straight from the credits, director Henry Koster doing nothing to dispel the other worldly aspects of the setting, nuns Margaret (Loretta Young) and Scolastica (Celeste Holm) meet spacey New England artist Amelia (Elsa Lanchester) and her models (Gary Pagett as "Johnnie"), in Come To The Stable, 1949, from the Clare Booth Luce story.

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Santa Anita French nuns in New York (Loretta Young as Margaret, Celeste Holm as Scolastica) undeterred by meatball Sam (Mike Mazurki) as they seek audience with kingpin Rossi (Thomas Gomez), who owns the land they want for their school, Marion Martin his manicurist, in Henry Koster's Come To The Stable, 1949.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open Season On Husbands Big scene for Joan Collins as showgirl Crystal (drawn from the Joan Crawford role in the 1939 original The Women), with trouper Pat (Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones the stage-hand), Leslie Nielsen her target and Dolores Gray and Joan Blondell catching on, in the musical re-make, The Opposite Sex, 1956.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Four Million Square Males Ann Sheridan as playwright Amanda off to a crisp start, opening the Fay and Michael Kanin musical adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women," also introducing Dolores Gray as Sylvia, Alice Pearce as manicurist Olga and Joan Blondell in the dark, in The Opposite Sex, 1956, starring June Allyson.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Young Man With A Horn At a party flashing back, and convinced that Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is cheating, June Allyson (as singer Kay) "remembers" what is actually an original written by George Stoll and Ralph Freed for this picture, featuring Harry James, in the re-make of The Women, The Opposite Sex, 1956.

Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) That's French For Love On the ladies' train to Reno seeking divorces, the Countess (Mary Boland) introduces herself to Mary (Norma Shearer) and recruits Miriam (Paulette Goddard), in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.

Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Blithering Coward Peggy (Joan Fontaine) is daffy, having just reconciled with her husband on the phone, prompting Miriam (Paulette Goddard) to give Mary (Norma Shearer) an overdue talking-to, at the Reno dude ranch in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.

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