Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
(Leo McCarey, US 1945, 126 min.)
Originally scheduled as a film series for this fall at The Dryden, we look 75 years into the past at the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture of 1945. A diverse group of films that highlight the breadth of technique and genre taking place at the height of the Hollywood system.
Bing Crosby returns to his role of Father O’Malley from Going My Way (1944) for this drama about a priest and a nun trying to save their school from closing. O’Malley is assigned to a parish with a school run by nuns. The Mother Superior and school principal is Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), who bristles at O’Malley’s more lax opinions and attitudes. The school is run-down, while a new building is being constructed across the street. Sister Mary’s hope is that the owner of the building will donate it for a new school, but he only hopes to tear down the school for a parking lot.
This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
(Leo McCarey, US 1945, 126 min.)
Originally scheduled as a film series for this fall at The Dryden, we look 75 years into the past at the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture of 1945. A diverse group of films that highlight the breadth of technique and genre taking place at the height of the Hollywood system.
Bing Crosby returns to his role of Father O’Malley from Going My Way (1944) for this drama about a priest and a nun trying to save their school from closing. O’Malley is assigned to a parish with a school run by nuns. The Mother Superior and school principal is Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), who bristles at O’Malley’s more lax opinions and attitudes. The school is run-down, while a new building is being constructed across the street. Sister Mary’s hope is that the owner of the building will donate it for a new school, but he only hopes to tear down the school for a parking lot.
This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
