Was the singing nun gay

That wax statue of Debbie Reynolds looks very much like her Post a Comment. Here's a post a ran about two years ago, but newly enhanced with some new pix to accentuate my points! Maybe it's because I attended 13 years of Catholic school that includes kindergartenand got to know so many nuns on a personal level, but I've always been fascinated by movies about "brides of christ".

None of them could - but some could really SING! The real Soeur Sourire Sister Smilewho wrote and sang the worldwide hit song "Dominique" lived a very much different life than what Hollywood would have led us to believe. She became popular among the other nuns for her beautiful songs and was encouraged by to record an album in The song "Dominique," about an evangelist and saint who figured prominently in Belgian history made her an international celebrity, and she adopted the stage name of Soeur Sourire.

Unfortunately, the movie doesn't cover the later years of her life. Around the same time as the film's release, Jeanne stopped performing, Soon after, in she left the convent and recorded her second album, titled "I Am Not a Star in Heaven". Though she was deeply religious, she grew increasingly vocal and critical of the conservatism of the Roman Catholic Church and she became an advocate of birth control and reportedly was the singing nun gay rights as well.

She later opened a school for autistic children in Belgium with a "friend", Annie Pescher. Desperate to raise money, she released an updated dance music version of 'Dominique' in need to find it on iTunes but it failed to set the charts on fire. Inshe and Pescher committed suicide together by overdosing on barbiturates and alcohol, and were buried together in consecrated ground.

There is a recent film version which delves into these details. I look forward to seeing it one day.

The True Story Behind A Popular French Song: Dominique by The Singing Nun

Meanwhile, getting back to the movie at hand - I'd been curious about the film for years - I mean a "true story" about nuns starring Jewish-convert Debbie Reynolds her "best friend" Agnes Moorehead and everyone's favorite sexy s MD - Chad Everett!!! How could things go wrong?

Directed by war movie veteran Henry Was the singing nun gaythings do go terribly wrong. Well, Debbie does as well as she can as the unsinkable Sister Ann, the spunky nun who who can sing like an angel, but has a lot to learn about doing good things and butting in where she doesn't belong.

She is always riding around on her motor scooter with her guitar "Sister Adelle"playing soccer with the boys and trying to stop peasant girls from becoming strippers - what a scamp! Moorehead is effectively bitchy as "Mother Endora" - a senior nun, who is not amused by Sister Ann's frolics.

Sister Ann's real dream is to move to the African Congo to work with children, but in the meantime she befriends a lonely local little boy, Dominic, whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic. I think his sister Katherine Ross is kinda whore-ish too.

Sister Ann doesn't care about the saint like the real Sister Smile, so decides to write a song about the little boy instead. Go figure. When Father Clementi Montalban hears Sister Ann's song, he see dollar signs and enters her in a talent contest. Before you know it, old friend Everett, apparently channeling Clark Gable, shows up and signs her to a record deal and the whole world is soon listening to her silly light-hearted songs!

Ironically, while preparing for the show, the nuns explain that they're forbidden to wear makeup-even though the actresses portraying them are clearly wearing lipstick and false eyelashes! Everything seems wonderful and magical, only Sister Ann is unprepared for her new found fame-and her attraction to Everett!

This is just like Sister Bertrille and Carlos - I mean what was the deal with those two? And what of the tragedy that soon befalls Dominic and his slutty sister? Does a poor Catholic girl really need to resort to stripping to pay the rent on her cockroach infested shack?