A hit in its day, spawning a less than satisfying sequel (Where Angels Go Trouble Follows), "The Trouble With Angels" is a wonderful film. While I've had the Trouble with Angels soundtrack for many years (first on an LP, now on CD), what I'd practically kill for is the unreleased soundtrack to the sequel, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. When the girls enter the emergency slide, the scene was filmed in a studio in Culver City. Rachel Devery encounters rebellious Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) a train. director of photography Film Editing by Robert C. Jones The Trouble With Angels Brief Synopsis Two free spirits cause problems at a convent school. Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters. The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 American comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all-girls Catholic school run by nuns. Mary (Hayley) responded, "Naturally". '"[4], In his review of The Trouble With Angels music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine lamented the reworking of earlier hits but still had some praise for the album: "Presumably, this course was taken with the idea that it would remind audiences of why Newton was a star, but the lack of new material is nevertheless quite disappointing for longtime fans. [8] Greta Garbo, Frye's original choice for the role of the Mother Superior, rejected the producer's offer of $1 million to star in the film. There's a guy that's running the sky. Shaw, Robert. Rosalind Russell is the Mother Superior of a Catholic school invaded by troubled young women Hayley Mills (she's Mary) and her cohort June Harding (she's Rachel). Donnellon said he wanted the film to be seen through the eyes of one of the young nuns. [3], The Washington Post called it "wonderful fun". She was 81. The Trouble With Angels marked her return to studio recording after nine years. But the cake is important, too, and mostly missing from the book. Uploaded by This 1966 comedy chronicles the antics of two teenagers in an all girls Catholic convent school. by Anonymous reply 26 July 3, 2021 4:03 PM [quote]June Harding was 28 when they filmed and she's 100% believable as a teen. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). It was featured prominently in this movie, but all of the interior shots were done in a studio in California. The main building looks like a stone castle and is still standing. Debuting June Harding nearly steals her thunder, while Rosalind Russell steals every scene she's in, and Mary Wickes and Binnie Barnes are strong too. "The Trouble With Angels" is truly a gem. She, Mary, hates it! You can either click on the link in your confirmation email or simply re-enter your email address below to confirm it. She was the only woman to ever direct a Twilight Zone episode. There is more TRUTH in this honest and extremely funny movie about two young hellfires coming of age in a convent school than in all the subsequent expose-type movies, like Monsignor, purporting to reveal the truth behind the hypocracies (admittedly there, but extremely exaggerated) of the Catholic church. Formats: CD, Digital (73 min) Stagecoach / The Trouble With Angels Mainstream Records (MDCD 608) Released: May 1, 1991. The Trouble with Angels is the tenth solo studio album by country pop singer Juice Newton. The Trouble With Angels 1966 1 hr 51 mins Family, Comedy NR Watchlist Two mischievous students make a nuisance of themselves at a convent boarding school run by a head nun who has a devil of a. [10] The role of the Mother Superior went to Rosalind Russell, who said: "I have been around nuns my whole life and I wanted to do justice with them". The girls become friends immediately and a begin a four year "reign of terror" at the convent. This phenomenon, inspired no doubt by the unprecedented success of The Sound Of Music, fills me with foreboding rather than anticipation, because it is frighteningly easy to get nuns all wrong on the screen and terribly difficult to do them justice, especially today when their proper identity is being so hotly debated inside as well as outside convents. Although the Mother Superior accurately pegs them as mischief makers and doles out punishment accordingly, she is unable to outsmart them. C-111m. At a all girl school run by nuns, the mother superior has to deal with two new girls who seam to cause new problems in New ways. Her character visibly changes, grows spiritually through the course of the film, although I did not recognize this until a second viewing. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills as rebellious teenager Mary Clancy, Rosalind Russell as the stern-but-reasonable Mother Superior, and June Harding as Rachel Devery, Mary's clumsy partner in crime. The main building looks like a stone castle and is still standing. Both girls almost get expelled for smoking in the basement. MOVIE CALL SHEET: Columbia Buys 'Good, Evil'. The Trouble With Angels - Full Cast & Crew 1966 1 hr 51 mins Family, Comedy NR Watchlist Where to Watch Two mischievous students make a nuisance of themselves at a convent boarding school run by. Roz Reunited With College Classmate.. Cast: Rosalind Russell (Mother Superior), Hayley Mills (Mary Clancy), June Harding (Rachel Devery), Binnie Barnes (Sister Celestine), Camilla Sparv (Sister Constance), Mary Wickes (Sister Clarissa), Marge Redmond (Sister Liguori). The last of these peaked at number one on the Billboard Country Chart. All supporting cast members are terrific, too, as is the school setting, the costumes, the amazingly great script and the equally fine direction. Costume Design: Helen Colvig, Sybil Connolly They don't make 'em like this anymore, alas. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. She's a follower, not a leader. A couple of troublemaking girls at a Catholic school/nunnery, A Comedy that Evolves Into a Serious Drama, Mother Superior jumps the gun (on her students). "The Trouble With Angels" starts out as a fairly standard Hayley Mills teen comedy. The Trouble With Angels (1966), her first film since the end of her Disney contract, was just as wholesome as her Disney films. Roz Russell: A Peripatetic Happening: PERIPATETIC ROZ RUSSELL. (What I wouldn't give to be able to see this in person !) Despite the unexpected appearance of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, cast as (what else?) She makes the contrived material about adolescent escapades in a Catholic girls' boarding school look believable. The exterior shots were filmed at St. Mary's Home, an orphanage in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Especially meaningful to Mary is the day they hold a Christmas party for a women's nursing home and Mary sees how M Sup consoles and hugs a lady whose family doesn't bother to attend. The two main actresses in the film, Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills, were afflicted with the same life-threatening disease, breast cancer, when they were in their 60's. Rosalind Russell called Producer William Frye to complain about Director Ida Lupino's imbibing during filming. She used to stick out her tongue whenever I passed (she couldn't stand me) and she was bursting at the seams with repressed sexuality." Hayley Mills & Rosalind Russell truly shine in the only accurate portrayal of Catholicism I have ever seen on film. It is a funny, touching, and absorbing blast from the past, and I would recommend it to anyone, even if they are not Catholic. [13] The title was changed to The Trouble with Angels the following month out of fear there were too many other "nun" movies at the time (e.g. In August 1963 Ross Hunter was pursuing the novel; he wanted Loretta Young, Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwyck and Virginia Grey to play nuns and Patty Duke and Mary Badham to play students. (I was about ten) I found it just as affecting yesterday as I did then. Director: Ida Lupino Shoehi Ohtani has some issues zippering his jacket while on bases during the top of the 1st inning. There was a time when you could see great "B" movies, like this one, in theaters. But her audience didn't want to let her grow up. While in the novel the school was portrayed as a boarding school outside the city, Trahey actually attended what is now Providence-St. Mel's High School, which was only a day . Roz Is Glad They Never Saw Her as Sexily Symbolic. The Trouble With Angels is a superb family movie with a stellar cast and a terrific storyline. In fact, most of the comic episodes occur early in the film; thereafter, life gets serious, as the girls visit a home for the aged, learn how one sister was abused by the Nazis, and how another plans to teach in a leper colony. Another of my favorite classics from childhood was 1966's THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, a sassy and entertaining comedy from a time long forgotten about two teenagers (Hayley Mills, June Harding) who meet at a Catholic convent school called St. Francis Academy, who become fast friends and cause nothing but headache for the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Newton's previous studio album had been Ain't Gonna Cry (1989). It's touching when Roz Russell welcomes a rebellious Hayley Mills into the sisterhood by the end of the movie. On the basis of its 1966 publicity, those who viewed the "The Trouble With Angels" (TTWA) must have been expecting a comedy. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills (her first post- Disney film role), Rosalind Russell, and June Harding . And it's such a nice change no blood spilled at all, darling", said Lupino.[13]. The first theatrical movie directed by Ida Lupino since The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and The Bigamist (1953). Formats: CD, Digital (58 min) Pope Francis defends John Paul II in Vatican Girl case, Ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sex abuse in Wisconsin, North America synod document calls the church to welcome women, LGBT people and youth, Executive Director for Mission Integration, Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, What ChatGPT reveals about our historyand demands of our present, Hong Kongs Jesuit bishop visits Beijing as China-Vatican ties strain, We get to know God in the humdrum of everyday life. She lived alone in her own apartment, and made headlines by "ordering wine at parties [and] trying to crash a nude floor show in Las Vegas," according to Photoplay magazine. Although he appeared twice and had a speaking role, he was uncredited. But she uttered the best line in the 1967 "Matt Helm" espionager "Murderer's Row" (with Dean Martin and Ann-Margret); cast as the mistress of villain Karl Malden, Sparv comforted her lover after his latest doomsday device . Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) gets shipped off to a Catholic boarding school by her guardian, a wealthy, woman-chasing uncle, who doesn't want her around. She watched the movie with her family on her first night home, after being rescued from her 9-month kidnapping ordeal. Can Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) & the other nuns tame these troublemakers before they enter society as adults? Russell said to Frye, "Ida's been having those drinks again." The Trouble With Angels Lyrics: Look at me, look at you / Laugh at them, yeah, we should laugh at us too / Make a wish we wanna come true / Gonna get us an angel, maybe get us two / We goin' for . As the worldly and wise Mother Superior, Rosalind is both amused and unsettled at the stunts her two incorrigible charges pull. To H.S. by Anonymous reply 27 Mills sparkles in her role as devilish Mary Clancy, as does June Harding as Rachel Devery, her neophyte partner in crime. The St. Francis Academy in the film was filmed on location at what was formerly known as St. Mary's Home for Children and is presently known as Lindenwold Castle in Ambler, Pennsylvania. In October 1965 Jerry Goldsmith signed to do the music.[19]. $1.99 +$3.65 shipping. Cinematography: Lionel Lindon Russell wanted Lupino off of this movie, but Frye spoke to Lupino, and she stopped drinking on the set for the duration of filming. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and what a perfect vehicle for her. We used to do more stop and start with her vocals. Mary Clancy, - She also said that Ida would show up to work wearing black and white outfits, which appeared to mimic the nuns' habits. Screenplay: Blanche Hanalis, based on the book "Life With Mother Superior," by Jane Trahey Speaking of the album's title track, Newton remarked, "I loved the line 'We've got pseudo big plans.' Hayley Mills plays Mary Clancy, who, with her best friend Rachel Devery (June Harding), succeeds in driving the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) to distraction with an endless number of practical jokes. At Grauman Chinese theater Rosalind Russell's hand prints are about 15 feet from Hayley's hand prints. I am a guy, and I love "The Trouble with Angels"! They don't make 'em like this anymore, alas. But the girls exit the slide in Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 comedy film about the adventures of two teenage girls in an all-girls Catholic school run by nuns. I absolutely love this movie. Mary is deeply touched by the simple and devout service when one of the nuns dies suddenly, and she is further moved by the sisters' Christmas celebration. The Trouble with Angels was based on the memoir, Life with Mother Superior by Jane Trahey about her own high-school years at a Catholic school near Chicago in the 1930s. And June Harding almost manages to steal the film from Ms. Russell and Ms. Mills. The Trouble with Angels. Running wild through the school and invading the cloisters, the girls substitute bubble bath powder for sugar at the nuns' tables, cause a fire emergency by smoking cigars in the boiler room, and disastrously attempt to make a mask by covering the face of a fellow student with quick-hardening plaster. (1968), Sister Act (1992), and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). Private Lives of the Tudors: The Court of Henry VIII, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson - Show Date: 09/26/74, Danny Kaye - The Best Of The Danny Kaye Show. Can I be less tolerant of Mary than the Church has been of me? Stark Party Opens Gay Holiday Season. June Harding, a versatile actress whose film debut in "The Trouble With Angels" made her a teenage rebel icon, has. She finished her directing career working in television. 1966. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills (in her first post-Disney film role), Rosalind Russelland June Harding. A sequel, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Stella Stevens, was released in 1968, with Russell, Barnes, Mary Wickes and Dolores Sutton all reprising their roles as nuns. The Trouble with Angels (1966) Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters. After the release of that album she spent several years performing on concert tours and in night clubs. We made a conscious decision to approach it more organically. 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