''Sally and Saint Anne'' is a 1952 American

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directed by Rudolph Maté and starring

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and

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Plot

Sally O’Moyne is a schoolgirl who lives with three generations of an eccentric Irish family, including her Grandpa Pat Ryan, who pretends to be close to death. One day at school she can’t find her lunch pail so she prays to

Saint Anne According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...

, asking for her intercession. When her lunch pail is returned to her, Sally begins to believe Saint Anne is performing miracles for her, and her neighbors ask her to pray to the saint for their requests. A few years later land-grabbing Alderman McCarthy wants the O’Mayne’s off of their property, and Sally turns to Saint Anne to help them keep their house.Movie of the Week - Sally and Saint Anne, Jet, August 14, 1952, page 66

Cast

as Sally O'Moyne *

as Grandpa Pat Ryan *

as Alderman Percival Xavier 'Goldtooth' McCarthy * Gregg Palmer as Johnny Evans * Hugh O'Brian as Danny O'Moyne * Jack Kelly as Mike O'Moyne *

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as Mrs. Kitty 'Mom' O'Moyne * Otto Hulett as Pop O'Moyne *

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as Lois Foran * George Mathews as Father Kennedy * Lamont Johnson as Willie O'Moyne * King Donovan as Hymie Callahan, Trainer

References

External links

* * 1952 films 1952 comedy films American comedy films Films directed by Rudolph Maté American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{1950s-comedy-film-stub