• The Nun's Story is a 1956 novel by Kathryn Hulme. It was a Book of the Month selection and reached #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The lead...
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  • The Nun's Story is a 1959 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, and Dean...
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    "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the...
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  • Marie Louise Habets (category 20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic nuns)
    Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) in The Nun's Story, a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme. The Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn...
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  • the drama films The Nun's Story (1959) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), the latter based on his play. Anderson was born in New York City, the son...
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    Audrey Hepburn (category British expatriate actresses in the United States)
    which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963)...
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    Peter Finch (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    to Hollywood to make The Sins of Rachel Cade (shot in 1959, released in 1961), an attempt to repeat the success of The Nun's Story, with Angie Dickinson...
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    Best Actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for her work in The Nun's Story. In 1987, she was awarded the Commander of the National French...
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    noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Her 1956 book The Nun's Story was a best-selling novel...
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    Wilder's Love in the Afternoon. Two years later, she appeared in the romantic adventure film Green Mansions, and played a nun in The Nun's Story. In 1961, Hepburn...
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    Fred Zinnemann (category Austrian emigrants to the United States)
    films were The Search (1948), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners...
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  • Switzerland. She is kept busy making the films Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, and The Nun's Story. While filming The Nun's Story in Stanleyville, Belgian Congo...
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  • Story of a Cloistered Nun (Italian: Storia di una monaca di clausura, released as Unholy Convent and Diary of a Cloistered Nun) is a 1973 nunsploitation...
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    Beyond the Door (1948) and two of director Otto Preminger's films, Whirlpool (1949) and Angel Face (1952). She also appeared in The Nun's Story (1959)...
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    Richard O'Sullivan (category Actors from the London Borough of Hounslow)
    had the small role of student Robin Stevens. Around the same time, he was cast in the role of Pierre van der Mal in an early scene of The Nun's Story (also...
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  • 17th Golden Globe Awards (category 1959 awards in the United States)
    Anne Frank The Nun's Story On the Beach Some Like It Hot But Not For Me Operation Petticoat Pillow Talk Who Was That Lady? Porgy and Bess The Five Pennies...
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  • Roof The Goddess The Brothers Karamazov Me and the Colonel Gigi 1959: The Nun's Story Ben-Hur Anatomy of a Murder The Diary of Anne Frank Middle of the Night...
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    Curtiz. Jagger was in The Nun's Story (1959), playing the father of Audrey Hepburn's character, and Cash McCall (1960), and played the traveling manager for...
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  • 32nd Academy Awards (category 1959 awards in the United States)
    Ben-Hur?" A highlight of the ceremony came during the presentation of the award for Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: absent winner...
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    Pinter's The Birthday Party. Among her film appearances are her role as Mother Marcella in Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story (1959) and as the cantankerous...
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  • Franz Waxman (category Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and...
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    for the Academy Award for Best Director for his films The Search (1948), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners...
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    Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978). Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nun's Story (1959) and Dr. Martha Lesh...
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  • Errol John (category Recipients of the Chaconia Medal)
    in films such as The African Queen (1951), The Heart of the Matter (1953), Simba (1955), Odongo (1956), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sins of Rachel Cade...
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    addition, the abbess increases the nun's prayer rule, she is allowed a stricter personal ascetic practice. Great Schema – The final stage, called "Megaloschemos"...
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  • Henry Blanke (category German emigrants to the United States)
    nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Nun’s Story (1959). He was born Heinz Blanke in Steglitz, Berlin, Germany, the son of painter...
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  • ISBN 978-1-4537-1096-8. Purtell, Tim (18 December 1992). "The Singing Nun's Story". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 26...
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    Place (1957) – Miss Elsie Thornton The Nun's Story (1959) – Sister Margharita (Mistress of Postulants) The Story on Page One (1959) – Mrs. Ellis BUtterfield...
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    Edith Evans (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review (NBR) for The Nun's Story in 1959. The NBR also cited her as Best Supporting Actress for The Chalk Garden in...
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  • was cast in the film, as a priest investigating a nun's mysterious suicide. Taissa Farmiga was cast shortly after, as a Roman Catholic nun in her novitiate...
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