Word: actionless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna (Louise Closser Hale) giving her a brooch when she enters the convent...