The White Sister is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Helen Hayes and Clark Gable.

The banns are called for the third time for the marriage of Italian Princess Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) and the husband chosen by her father (Lewis Stone), Ernesto Traversi.

Driving home through streets filled with revelers celebrating a saint's feast day, their limousine is rear-ended by a car full of officers, driven by Giovanni Severi (Clark Gable), a handsome army lieutenant.

Angela is a warm-hearted, impulsive, romantic, innocent young woman, who dreams every night of a handsome man she has never met.

“Giovanni” it replies, in the voice of the handsome lieutenant, and the horse—or rather the front half—follows Angela through the crowd while Mina is swept away by the revelers.

Two years later, Giovanni emerges from a long session in solitary confinement to find an epidemic of cholera in the camp.

Director Fleming completed all of the interiors and backlot sequences at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios at Culver City, California.

Second unit director Cullen Tate was in charge of all the aerial sequences filmed in Reno, Nevada.

Aerial coordinator Paul Mantz gathered all the aircraft required: Stearman C3, Curtiss Fledgling and Travel Air J-5 biplanes, leased from the Los Angeles area.

[2][N 1] The White Sister generally received favorable reviews, with Variety saying, "Helen Hayes is the sorrowing Angela, as solid and satisfying a bit of acting as comes to the screen in a blue moon.

"[3] Reviewer Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times reflected, "It is a beautiful production, but its scenes never seem as real as those of the old mute work.