Post by Robert C. on Jan 14, 2010 20:39:04 GMT
The Singing Nun is a 1966 semi-biographical film about the life of Jeanine Deckers, a nun who recorded the chart-topping hit song "Dominique". It starred Debbie Reynolds in the title role.
Jeanine Deckers (October 17, 1933 – March 29, 1985), better known in English as The Singing Nun, was a Belgian nun, and a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. She became internationally famous in 1963 as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile) when she scored a hit with the song "Dominique". In the English language world, she is mostly referred to as "The Singing Nun".
Deckers rejected the film as "fiction".[2] Sally Field spoofed the role starting the following year as the title character in the television series The Flying Nun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun
Despite the film's criticism, Debbie Reynolds is every bit as good a singing nun as Julie Andrews
And of course, the music of the Soeur Sourire (Smiling Sister) herself was truly celestial.
