Nov. 27 movie: The White Sister. Clark Gable plays an Italian soldier who falls for Helen Hayes, an aristocrat. He messes up her engagement to an old drip, then WWI breaks out so Gable goes off to war. His biplane is shot down and she thinks he's dead, so she becomes a nun. Eventually he makes it back, but by then she's gotten used to being a nun and doesn't want to give it up. Something about not being able to marry Gable because she's already married to Jesus, or whatnot. Gable sort of kidnaps her and tries to make her admit that she loves him. And can I say, Gable played a lot of bad boys but forcing himself on a nun? That's pretty low. Anyway the Germans start bombing, Hayes starts praying, and Gable thinks better of the whole "kidnap the nun" thing and takes her back to the convent. Then he goes back into combat and dies. What a happy story!
This may be the first Clark Gable movie I've ever seen, after he became a leading man that is, where he doesn't get the girl. (Gone With the Wind doesn't count, because there he gets the girl, but doesn't want her.) I guess God trumps Gable.
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