Anyone remember the movie The trouble with Angels?

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Anyone remember the movies The trouble with Angels? or Where Angels Go Trouble follows?

Two mischievous and curious teenage girls enter a convent school and wreak havoc with the academy’s carefully organized routine.
 
Two cute movies. My son, who passed away a couple of years ago, just loved the part that the bus driver nun played in the "Where Angels go …"movie.
 
Didn’t you cry when one girlfriend announced to the other that she was entering a religious order? I did.
 
I would like to watch these two movies with an adult critical eye.What were so many Catholic people viewing back in the mid 60’s?
I will make an attempt to do this and get back to this thread sometime.
 
Are the two movies on DVD?

The bus going through the car was was a pretty funny scene…ALL the windows were open and they were trying to close them all! :eek:
 
I love “The Trouble with Angels.” It reminds me of my own days in an all-girl Catholic high school (not that we did what those girls did.) I especially like the portrayal of the nuns as human beings, and not as dithering simpletons or vicious martinets as Holloywood so often depicts them. On the surface this seems to be a film about teenage hijinks, but actually, it’s the story of the growth of a vocation.
 
Were they “required” viewing in Catholic schools? Twenty some odd years ago (when I started attending an all-girl Catholic high school), we saw these at least once a year.

I think the nuns were trying to tell us something…:hmmm:

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I love The Trouble With Angels…and yes, it’s on dvd. The book the movie was based on was a stitch, too…I read a paperback copy years ago, and it was just hysterical…can’t remember who wrote it, sorry, but maybe you can find it online or in a library.

I started to watch the sequel once…quickly lost interest. I think the nun in the “modified” habit was organizing a Vietnam protest or something. In my opinion, it lacked the charm of the original, so I quit watching.
 
“The Trouble With Angels” is one of my favorite movies. I loved it before I even became a Catholic. It was interesting to watch the change and growth Mary had as she went through school, and to see the positive influence the Sisters had on her. I love the scene when Mother Superior is with Mary in the sewing room, talking about her life before she became a Nun. I also love the scene when Mother Superior and Sister Ligouri are talking about why Mother didn’t expel the girls. And I always cry when Sister Ligouri dies.

I just watched this movie the other day. That’s why everything is so fresh in my mind.

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The book this movie is based on is “Life with Mother Superior” by Jane Trahey. (I believe that’s the author’s name–could be Jean, though.)
 
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I just checked Amazon; they’re both on DVD.

I have The Trouble with Angels on VHS. I love that movie! I like the part where Mary sees Mother Superior putting the bread crumbs around St. Francis’s statue for the birds and the part when they go to the nursing home at Christmas. I wish they still made movies like that.

I caught the sequel on cable once, but didn’t like it much.
 
The Trouble with Angels was one of my favorite movies as a teen and I wasnt a Catholic then either!! Yes it was so moving Mary’s personality and the Mother Superior saying they would rather have one like her then one hundred timid submissive ones. I think if you can watch it you will learn some really good life lessons.
 
I thought the books were better. Read them in high school just before the movies came out. Am I old or what!
 
I feel a poll coming on: what is your favorite “nun” movie and why? I love the Trouble with Angels because I like Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills, and I thought the relationship between the two girls and the conflict over the religious vocation was very honest and well done.

I like the Nun’s Story with Audrey Hepburn because it very accurately depicts the struggle of a young nun with the vow of obedience, and was prophetic in its timing.

I love Sound of Music, and hate Sister Act because one depicts nuns singing beautifully, which most of them do, and one assumes they can’t sing because they don’t do Vegas.
 
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I love the Trouble with Angels because I like Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills, and I thought the relationship between the two girls and the conflict over the religious vocation was very honest and well done.
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yes I could feel this scene with my heart… hopefully this weekend I will locate the movies and watch them.
 
I located the two movies in my local public library system and now have them to view this weekend. 🙂
Here is hoping they are as good as I remember them. It has been 25 years or so!
 
I just finished watching The Trouble With Angels. After 2 1/2 decades I still teared up when ‘Mary Clancy’ stays to become a nun!

I love Mother Superior saying to Mary
" I would rather have one who chooses far more than 100 who would yield." :crying:

Mary Clancy chooses. :yup:
 
I also enjoy the Trouble with Angels, made a few years after Auntie Mame, because Rosalind Russel’s two characters in these movies are so different. She is one of my favorite acresses. The movie about Sister Kenney is great, and the one where she and Cary Grant are reporters on rival papers is one of the greatest comedies of all time. Sorry brain is not awake yet, can’t remember titles.
 
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