article_snippet: For years I’d thought it was Vera Lynn’s
article_snippet: It has always been easy to sneer at ‘three hours of nuns yodelling’, and Christopher Plummer himself dubbed the picture
article_snippet: I always hid under the seat when the Nazis prowled around the convent, and to this day I haven’t seen the bit where the nuns sabotage the cars.
article_snippet: It was a film that appealed to women who had domineering husbands
article_snippet: A 21-year-old nun came to help out with the family — Maria Augusta Kutschera.
article_snippet: She’d entered the convent, Nonnberg Abbey, to escape abusive uncles and cousins.
article_snippet: Exactly as in the film, A 21-year-old nun was a tomboyish postulant, always having to be rebuked for sliding down banisters, climbing on the roof, jumping over chimneys, and grabbing the other nuns to tickle the other nuns ribs.
article_snippet: Like Plummer, Georg peeped on a bosun’s whistle to call seven children to order, and Georg accompanied seven children on a guitar when seven children had a singing session.
article_snippet: I’d go Sing but in a nun outfit I do keep being mistaken for Pam Ferris as Sister Angelina.
article_snippet: the film was also heavily edited in France, where the film was felt that nuns shouldn’t be seen singing non-religious songs.