Top Five Goofy Nun movies
by Ernie on 27/08/09 at 10:13 am
5. Change of Habit (1969): Mary Tyler Moore as a nun . . . romanced by Elvis Presley!
4. Three Mules for Sister Sara (1970): Shirley MacLaine as a nun on the run with Clint Eastwood. But the incredible twist: she’s not a nun at all! She’s a prostitute! What are the chances?
3. The Singing Nun (1966): Debbie Reynolds as a nun . . . who sings!
2. Sister Act (1992): Whoopi Goldberg as lounge singer forced to hide out with the last full-habit-wearing convent of nuns in all of San Francisco. Wackiness ensues.
1. The Sound of Music (1965): need we say more?
Extra: Nuns on the Run (1990): Monty Python Eric Idle and future-Hagrid Robbie Coltrane hide out as nuns because they’re . . . on the run!
For more nun wackiness, see the TV show “The Flying Nun”, starring future two-time Oscar winner Sally Field as a nun who flies, and also Shelley Morrison, later to gain more fame playing put-upon maid Rosario on Will and Grace.
And also see the stage show “Nunsense.”
keith
Aug 27th, 2009
How about “The Trouble With Angels” and the sequel “Where Angles Go, Trouble Follows” with Haley Mills about an all girls catholic prep school.
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The Real Nun in Sister Act II
Sep 5th, 2009
Sister Act II needed at least a passing mention!
(And yes, I really was in Sister Act II, in the audience at the end of the movie. I’m the one in the beige habit and black veil. I even got to sing on stage between takes!)
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Sr. Mary Ann
Sep 10th, 2009
I know this is a TV series, but the Fr. Dowling Mysteries which featured Tom Bosley as Fr. Dowling and Tracy Nelson as “Sister Steve” is worth mentioning. She was a little “dorky”–but not your average, stereotypical nun.
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