The Trouble with Angels (film)

The Trouble with Angels
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Directed by	Ida Lupino
Produced by	William Frye
Screenplay by	Blanche Hanalis
Based on	Life with Mother Superior 1962 novel by Jane Trahey
Starring	Rosalind Russell Hayley Mills June Harding
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith Frank De Vol
Cinematography	Lionel Lindon
Edited by	Robert C. Jones
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 30, 1966 (1966-03-30)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$4.1 million (rentals)

The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all-girls Catholic school run by nuns. The film was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills (in her first post-Disney film role), Rosalind Russell and June Harding.

The film's cast also includes Marge Redmond (who would play a nun in the television series The Flying Nun, which premiered the following year) as math teacher Sister Liguori, Mary Wickes (who later played a nun in the movie Sister Act and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit) as gym teacher Sister Clarissa, and Portia Nelson as art teacher Sister Elizabeth (who had played a nun in The Sound of Music the previous year).

A sequel, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, was released in 1968.

The movie is set at St. Francis Academy (also the name of the school in Sister Act 2), a fictional all-girls 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 high-school 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.