Two high-spirited young students , Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding), at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters. The story spans three years and follows the rebel girls and the stiff-upper-lip nuns . She'll Try Anything...including the patience of a saint. Meet Clancy the Fancy - she's first in her class in hip talk, hot jive and holy cow! It's One Heaven of a Movie! It's Heaven in Earthly Entertainment! It's the habit forming comedy the whole family can enjoy!
Most effective dose of funnery and amusement in the nunnery , with a delightful collection of individual nuns gracing a story of two high-spirited adolescents at a convent school . An attractive , cheerful coming-of-age story for two girls who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a Catholic boarding school for teenagers and their continous frolics , jokes , antics and silly games . The movie was based on the book "Life with Mother Superior", written by Jane Trahey and it was equally based on her high school studies at a Catholic girls day school in Chicago . There's the elderly nun , always asleep , the shy one , having to go out with girls to choose bras , forced to dive in to save non-swimming who have got out of swimming lessons for three years . And the death of a nun one has come to know is a genuinely stirring moment . Hayley Mills gives one of her best acting , while Rosalind Russell is gloriously in control of her dialogue as the Mother Superior and has classic moments when operating on a pupil unable to get her head out of a plaster cast and including other surprising pranks carried out by the two rogue pupils , such as : setting off fire alarms, smoking cigars in the basement, and putting bubble baths in the nuns' sugar bowls. Along with Hayley Mills , here stands out Rosalind Russell , she is everything a Mother Superior should be : understanding but demanding at times , wise and beautiful
The motion picture was persuasively directed by Ida Lupino . She was the only person to both appear in and direct episodes of Twilight Zone (1959), acting in The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine (1959) and directing The Masks (1964). Ida was also the only woman to have directed an episode of the series. Lupino was widely respected as a pioneer for women filmmakers, she was the second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild , after Dorothy Arzner. Ida was a good filmmaker , she stimulates actors because she knows acting. She was one of the best directors at the time , making nice films , such as : "The Hitch-Hiker" , "The Bigamist" , "Hard fast and beautiful !" , "On Dangerous Ground", "Not Wanted" , "Never Fear" , "Outrage" and this "Never trouble with Angels" that was the final theatrical movie directed by Ida Lupino , she finished her directing career working in television. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average , well worth watching . The flick will appeal to Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell fans.
Most effective dose of funnery and amusement in the nunnery , with a delightful collection of individual nuns gracing a story of two high-spirited adolescents at a convent school . An attractive , cheerful coming-of-age story for two girls who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a Catholic boarding school for teenagers and their continous frolics , jokes , antics and silly games . The movie was based on the book "Life with Mother Superior", written by Jane Trahey and it was equally based on her high school studies at a Catholic girls day school in Chicago . There's the elderly nun , always asleep , the shy one , having to go out with girls to choose bras , forced to dive in to save non-swimming who have got out of swimming lessons for three years . And the death of a nun one has come to know is a genuinely stirring moment . Hayley Mills gives one of her best acting , while Rosalind Russell is gloriously in control of her dialogue as the Mother Superior and has classic moments when operating on a pupil unable to get her head out of a plaster cast and including other surprising pranks carried out by the two rogue pupils , such as : setting off fire alarms, smoking cigars in the basement, and putting bubble baths in the nuns' sugar bowls. Along with Hayley Mills , here stands out Rosalind Russell , she is everything a Mother Superior should be : understanding but demanding at times , wise and beautiful
The motion picture was persuasively directed by Ida Lupino . She was the only person to both appear in and direct episodes of Twilight Zone (1959), acting in The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine (1959) and directing The Masks (1964). Ida was also the only woman to have directed an episode of the series. Lupino was widely respected as a pioneer for women filmmakers, she was the second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild , after Dorothy Arzner. Ida was a good filmmaker , she stimulates actors because she knows acting. She was one of the best directors at the time , making nice films , such as : "The Hitch-Hiker" , "The Bigamist" , "Hard fast and beautiful !" , "On Dangerous Ground", "Not Wanted" , "Never Fear" , "Outrage" and this "Never trouble with Angels" that was the final theatrical movie directed by Ida Lupino , she finished her directing career working in television. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average , well worth watching . The flick will appeal to Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell fans.