The Bells of Saint Mary's (1945)

Directed by Leo McCarey

“Be kind to your web-footed friends,” said a silly parody song when I was a kid— it went to the tune of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” — “for a duck may be somebody’s mother!” You were supposed to be kind to everybody and everything, including “the purple People-Eaters,” whoever they were, and then somebody on the Minnesota Vikings got the great idea …