The Trouble with Angels (film)

The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an allgirls Catholic school run by nuns. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills in her first film after her contract with Walt Disney expired, Rosalind Russell and June Harding.

The movie is set at St. Francis Academy also the name of the school in Sister Act 2, a fictional allgirls Catholic boarding school in Pennsylvania, operated by an order of nuns. Rosalind Russell plays the Mother Superior, who spends the movie at odds with Mary Clancy Hayley Mills, a rebellious teenager, and her friend Rachel Devry June Harding. The episodic storyline follows the young women through their sophomore, junior and senior highschool years as they pull pranks on the sisters and repeatedly get in trouble. After spending much of the film resenting the authority of the Mother Superior, Mary receives the call senior year and, after graduation, remains at the school in the novitiate of the order.The Trouble with Angels was based on the book, Life with Mother Superior by Jane Trahey about her own highschool years at a Catholic school near Chicago, Illinois in the 1930s. While in the novel the school was portrayed as a boarding school outside the city, Trahey attended what is now ProvidenceSt. Mels High School, which was a day school. Many of the incidents mentioned in the book were based on Traheys experiences at Mundelein College in Chicago. The character of Mary Clancy Mills was based on Janes friend, Mary, who later became Sister John Eudes, a Sinsinawa Dominican nun. ........

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