THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS

'''The Trouble with Angels''' is a 1966 comedy film starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills set in a fictional all-girls Catholic boarding school operated by an order of nuns. Russell plays the Mother Superior, who spends the movie at odds with Mary Clancy (Mills), a rebellious teenager, and her misery-loves-company friend Rachel Devery (June Harding).
The movie, which follows an episodic storyline that follows the young women through their high-school years, also stars Marge Redmond (who also appeared as a nun in the television series ''The Flying Nun'') as Sister Liguori, Mary Wickes (who also played a nun in ''Sister Act'', and its sequel '') as Sister Clarissa.
The film marked a departure for Mills, who was attempting to emerge from her juvenile leads in Walt Disney-produced teen comedies as a comedic actress in this production directed by Actress/Director Ida Lupino.
The film enjoyed good reviews and enough success to warrant a sequel (''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows''). However, Mills opted not to reprise her role as the progressive protagonist and was replaced by Stella Stevens, who played Sister George, foil to Rosalind Russell’s Mother Superior.
Uncharacteristically, Russell criticized Mills' professionalism in her memoirs. Russell credited her Catholic-school education as inspiration for her role as Mother Superior.
The film was based on the memoir ''Life with Mother Superior'' by Jane Trahey, in which Trahey told the true story of her high-school years at a convent boarding school near Chicago in the 1930s.

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DVD Release

Memorable Dialogue

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DVD Release

DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003

Memorable Dialogue

★ ''Passenger on train: "Really! A child your age, smoking!"
Mary: "I'm not a child, Madam. I'm a midget with bad habits!"''

★ ''(Upon seeing the school for the first time) Mary: "It's positively medieval!
Rachel: "All that's missing is the dragon"''

★ ''"I've got the most scathingly, brilliant idea!"''

★ ''"Those two! GET THEM!!"''

★ ''"How's the water, Sister?"''

★ ''Rachel (After sliding down a fire escape): "That was fun!"
Mary: "Lets do it again some day!
Mother Superior (Waiting for them at the bottom): Where's the fire?"''

★ ''Rachel: "I keep telling you, you don't have to whisper. Sister Puddy could sleep through a blast-off. Watch.
(bangs on pans twice)
Mary: "It's incredible"
Rachel: "Hmmm. I keep testing her. It passes the time."''

★ ''Rachel: "She said I was the devil's agent"
Mary: "She meant you were my stooge!"''

★ ''Mother Superior: "As for the social graces, I am convinced that your school encourages barbarism, and concerns itself only with free thinking, free wheeling and finger painting"
Mr Peachtree: " The finest educational minds in the country happen to be on our side"
Mother Superior: "God is on ours!"''

★ ''Mother Superior: Well, it's a good thing you didn't make book on it, otherwise you might have been taken to the laundry"
Sister Liguori: " To the cleaners, Mother!"''

★ ''Rachel (Referring to Sister Liguori, who conducts mathematic examinations as though it was a horse race): "Isn't she too much?"
Mary: "She should've been a bookie!"''

★ ''Rachel: "Sister Clarissa won't let us drown"
Mary: "I wouldn't count on it!"''

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