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The Nun's Story 1959 Film | Audrey Hepburn. MY BOOKS: https://www.mcleanamy.co.uk/ What's your review of the 1959 film the Nun's Story, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring...
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- Amy McLean
- A Misfit from The Start
- Nursing in The Congo
- The Impact of “The Nun’S Story”
“The Nun’s Story” is not a subtle film, and it is clear from the outset that Gabrielle, the daughter of a world-renowned surgeon, is not convent material. She has inherited her father’s knack for medicine and joins a religious order because it will give her the opportunity to travel the world treating the sick and the poor. Her medical ambitions ar...
When at long last Sister Luke is assigned to the Congo, she appears truly joyful for the first time. But even this happiness is fleeting. She is crushed upon discovering that she must work in the European hospital instead of the Congolese one. “The Nun’s Story” never explains why working with Africans is so important to her. One gets the sense she ...
Although “The Nun’s Story” was one of Audrey Hepburn’s most commercially successful films—earning $12.8 million off a budget of $3.5 million—it is hardly the movie most associated with the actress. That honor goes to 1961’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which has cemented the image in the public consciousness of Hepburn in pearls, a black cocktail dres...
Grandma reviews - Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft : The Nun's Story (1959)
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With Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft. After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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- Drama
- Fred Zinnemann
- 1959-07-18
The Nun's Story is a 1959 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, and Peggy Ashcroft. The screenplay was written by Robert Anderson, based on the popular 1956 novel of the same name by Kathryn Hulme. The film tells the life of Sister Luke (Hepburn), a young woman who decides to enter ...
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Challenging, controversial, but impossible to dismiss, The Nun’s Story stars Audrey Hepburn as a young woman named Gabrielle van der Mal who enters convent life with high hopes and ideals, but finds the disappointments and stumbling-blocks that accompany her vows of poverty, chastity and (especially) obedience a potentially insurmountable ...
