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...girl: at graduation time Hayley decides to enter the novitiate. Roz, a worldly comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple, whose specialty is "interpretive movement." Gypsy Rose Lee plays the part with all the boop-de-doo phoniness...
TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays a nun who gets involved in a murder. This series, now on reruns and canceled for next season, got into ratings difficulty early in the season when it was opposite Get Smart! CBS, to give it the "benefit" of a more favorable time slot, moved it opposite U.N.C.L.E. Would you believe Bonanza...
...MARY MARTIN AT EASTERTIME WITH THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gower (Hello, Dolly!) Champion directs Mary (Hello, Dolly!) Martin as the spirit of spring, a nun, a Rockette and a magician. Goodbye, Radio City...
Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister...
Debbie, singing in her own small, true voice, plays your typical modern nun-mascaraed lashes, tweezed eyebrows and lipsticked smile facing the wind as she steers her motor scooter around the Belgian countryside. To give Sister Smile's simple story some plot, if not taste, the singing nun is furnished with an old boy friend (Chad Everett) who makes her a recording star and an international celebrity, then tries to persuade her to renounce her vows...