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Release year: 1933

Storyline

The only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play.

Top credits

Directors

Mitchell Leisen

Writers

Cast

Dorothea Wieck — Sister Joanna
Evelyn Venable — Teresa
Guy Standing — Don Jose - the Doctor
Louise Dresser — Prioress

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Did you know

• A Nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

• One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised.

• It is the first film version and the only one in English of the classic 1911 Spanish play by Gregorio Martínez Sierra and María Lejárraga.