The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Written by Dudley Nichols and based on a story by McCarey
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Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley
Ingrid Bergman as Sister Benedict
Travers John Heagerty, known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable older men. His best
The Bells of St. Mary's
…Ingrid Bergman as Sister Mary Benedict Henry Travers as Horace P. Bogardus William Gargan as Joe Gallagher…
Travers in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Henry Travers as the Burglar in the Theatre Guild's Broadway production of Heartbreak House (1920)
Lynn Fontanne (Eliza) and Henry Travers (Alfred Doolittle) in the Theatre Guild production of Pygmalion (1926)
Travers in his most memorable role, as guardian angel Clarence Odbody opposite James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)