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Cradle song

"In Spain, a beautiful orphan woman, Joanna, leaves her beloved adopted family to join St. Mary's convent and become a nun. The convent's only contact with the outside world is through the doctor, however, the nuns are strictly forbidden from showing their faces even to him. Having known Joanna before she entered the convent, he sees that years of solemn convent life have quelled some of her spirit. When a baby is left in the torno wheel, a rotating door where food is traditionally left, Joanna instantly takes to the child. Although the vicaress is against keeping the baby, the doctor offers to officially adopt the girl, so the convent agrees to raise her. The girl, Teresa, grows under the loving care of Joanna and brings new life to the convent. For her seventeenth birthday, the doctor brings Teresa a beautiful dress from Madrid. Joanna is upset by this intrusion from the outside world and fears losing her 'daughter.' A fellow nun, Marcella, advises her that her love for Teresa has become selfish, but the doctor believes she is simply suffering the trials of motherhood. After Joanna selflessly urges Teresa to explore the world outside the convent, the doctor takes Teresa to see the construction of a train station, where she is smitten with the foreman, Antonio Perez. After courting, Teresa accepts Antonio's marriage proposal and the nuns busy themselves sewing a fashionable wedding gown. Joanna again sacrifices her desire to witness Teresa's wedding so that they may be married before Antonio's mother, who is an invalid and is unable to travel to the convent from Madrid. As they make their sad farewells, the nuns grant Antonio his wish that he may see their faces before he takes Teresa away. After their departure, the nuns return to their life of solemn prayer"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

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