Watched a few episodes of ‘’The Flying Nun’’

My brother watched it when he was a kid and called it The Flying Nut.

no wonder Baby Boomers are so fucked up

What else was she going to do... "Klute"? She always looked 15.

My oldest sister was hooked on her series, "The Girl With Something Extra" (probably because of dreamy John Davidson).

Davidson was hot-was…

[quote]Mariam Hopkins

Oh, dear.

Who cares-she’s dead. ( hope you will be too)

Alejandro Ray made my pre teen weenie tingle.

Same here, OP. :) It just was a product of its time

She was a DC, not an OMG

I liked the show as a kid and I bought the premise of the hat and weight combo that made her fly. I secretly tried to make a copy of Sister Bertrille's habit but in a house with 10 kids it wasn't easy.

The original novelette by Tere Rios was charming. The TV series was actually better than it had any right to be -mostly due to the strong principal cast and guest stars. Midway through the first season they gave up on the Singing Nun/Sound of Music rip-off and dropped the bad musical numbers, and things improved considerably.

I had the SALLY FIELD SINGS THE FLYING NUN lp.

Aint' it a kick, R12?

We also watched sitcoms about a millionaire moving to the midwest and growing rutabagas with his glamorous but useless-as-a-farmwife wife, a hillbilly family who struck it rich and moved to Beverly Hills, and a POW camp where the prisoners were really in charge and running resistance operations behind enemy lines. Fuck reality.

☝🏼😎

It certainly didn’t hurt her career.

I always wondered which headdress she would be wearing in each scene - the cornette or the wimple?

It kind of did actually. But she persevered and proved that she was an extremely capable actress.

Yes Joanne Woodward said when Sally came in to audition for Sybil, she thought it was a joke. The Flying Nun?!

How is Joanne Woodward these days?

Pretty spry for 94, R20. Is there any truth to the rumor she had a dildo made from a life-cast of Paul's cock?

I was in love with Field and loved this show as a kid. About twenty years ago, I bought the DVD set for Season 1 and Season 2 - sad to say, they never released the final season on DVD. I enjoyed watching the DVDs (remembered most of them scene by scene) but something was lost over the years (unlike other sitcoms from back then which I still enjoyed watching on DVD and they still had that magic to them).

Alejandro Rey was good looking but at the same time his teeth looked like dentures.

Any truth to the rumors that Alejandro Rey was gay? I've read them in a few places, but I recall someone asking Sally Field about them and she laughed them off...

If he wasn't, he should have been. He really was gorgeous.

[quote] Is there any truth to the rumor she had a dildo made from a life-cast of Paul's cock?

Well, it wouldn't go in very far, I can tell you that much.

Sister Bertrille and Carlos had sexual chemistry, but I'm not sure that was what they were going for.

R23 I believe he was married a few times, so probably not as gay as you'd like him to be.

I remember reading that Madeline Sherwood (Mother Superior) encouraged Sally to study at Actors Studio. Madeline had quite a career.

Sherwood from Cat on a hot tin roof- ‘’It was the punch bowl’’

[quote]Hard to watch-preposterous concept.

Define hard-to-watch-preposterous concepts. What about an astronaut finding a genie in a bottle, an advertising executive married to a witch, a talking horse, Jerry Van Dyke's mother being reincarnated as a car, or a Martian living with Bill Bixby?

The only hard-to-watch-preposterous concept 60s TV sitcom I've seen is "It's About Time."

Sherwood appeared on Broadway in the Richard Rodgers - Stephen Sondheim musical Do I Hear A Waltz? shortly before The Flying Nun.

Marge Redmond had a small role in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. She was also in that perennial DL favorite, The Trouble With Angels.

Both were excellent actresses who rose above the material.

Good reply R14! I loved Green Acres and my dad liked Mash. Memories!

Sally Field was charming and magnetic and “The Flying Nun” was a hit, ran for something like three seasons. ABC needed to put something into production quickly for her when they belatedly realized she was a natural with star quality. They had canceled her first series “Gidget” for poor ratings, only to see it become a top ten hit when it was shown in reruns during the summer. It was too late to get that production team back together and a project that was ready to go to pilot was . . . “The Flying Nun.”

I recommend her memoir. She tells a fantastic story about being in the middle of a particularly witless scene in “The Flying Nun” when she suddenly hit a wall and couldn’t go on. She was exhausted and dispirited and couldn’t continue. She was shooting it with Madeleine Sherwood, who played her Mother Superior. Sherwood had been a civil rights advocate, studied at the Actor’s Studio and had appeared in two movie versions of Tennessee Williams plays. Sherwood immediately stopped the scene, spoke to the director and production was shut down for the day.

She understood that Sally had reached the limit of inspiration for this childish material and urged her to attend a couple of open evenings at the Actor’s Studio. Sally had considerable natural talent but she needed tools to keep going and see her through her work when the material was as poor as what they were getting week in and week out for 20 odd episodes a season..

So Field went and it changed her life, she became a pet of Strasberg’s and was on her way to “Sybil,” which won her an Emmy and completely changed the trajectory of her career.

Marge Redmond was also Angie's standby in Sweeney Todd and went on several times.

Marge was married to Jack Weston (until their divorce.)