The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Hayley Mills: Mary Clancy
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Quotes
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Mary Clancy : I've got the most scathingly brilliant idea!
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[last lines]
Mary Clancy : Who knows, Reverend Mother, maybe someday Rachel will come back and join the order.
Mother Superior : If she does, I quit!
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Mary Clancy : [looking at the Mother Superior's dress] Oh! It looks beautiful!
Mother Superior : It is nice, isn't it? I used to do a great deal a great deal of sewing when I was a girl. I'd always blessed my mother for insisting that I learn to how to handle a needle. When my parents died, I was sixteen then. My uncle, who'd lived in Paris...
Mary Clancy : Paris?
Mother Superior : Paris was my mother's home before she'd immigrated to Quebec and married my father. I'd lost my parents within three months of each other. The flu epidemic. Well, I went to live in Paris. My uncle arranged for my apprenticeship with a well known couterier. Of course, I was only a seamstress, but I had visions of creating my own designs and the house of Madeline Rousch challenging the great Channel. That was my name, Madeline Rousch. I remember standing behind the curtains with the fitters when the collections were shown. The buyers came from all over the world. Many times as I watched the models display the gowns, I'd think "Now I would have done that one differently. Used a different fabric. Something that had more movement, more mystery." Oh, I know it's vanity, of course. But I think I could have made a success of it.
Mary Clancy : But how could you give it up?
Mother Superior : I found something better.
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Rachel Devery : Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother?
Mother Superior : Most certainly not. The band will perform in their gym suits.
Rachel Devery : Our gym suits?
Mother Superior : Yes.
Mary Clancy : But, they're awful! I mean, it's not as if they were like Sacred Heart's. At Sacred Heart they wear short-shorts for gym.
Mother Superior : They're French.
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Mary Clancy : Hi, Marvel-Ann!
Marvel-Ann Clancy : Drop dead!
Rachel Devery : Who's that?
Mary Clancy : Marvel-Ann. My uncle George is her father. He's been sending her to the nuns since she was six. I told her she was illegitimate, so she hates me.
Rachel Devery : Is she?
Mary Clancy : Lord, no! Uncle George is very careful about that kind of thing.
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[upon their first arrival at St. Francis]
Mary Clancy : Ohhh! It's positively medieval!
Rachel Devery : All that's missing is the dragon!
[cut to the Mother Superior]
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Mother Superior : Evidently, Sister Ursula's German accent amuses you.
Mary Clancy : I didn't know she was German, Reverend Mother.
Mother Superior : Then surely you didn't know that during the war, Sister Ursula kept 34 Jewish children hidden for more than two years in the cellar of a destroyed convent outside of Munich. And that when this was finally discovered she was imprisoned. She suffered untold indignities, and she... she...
[choking up, then turning away]
Mary Clancy : Are we dismissed, Reverend Mother?
Mother Superior : [quietly] Yes.
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Mary Clancy : Rache! I need something to stuff in the window. The snow's coming in.
[Rachel gives Mary a magazine]
Mary Clancy : I can't stuff His Holiness in the window!
Rachel Devery : Well, I'm not going to give you Burt Lancaster!
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Exasperated Lady on Train : Really! A child your age smoking!
Mary Clancy : I'm not a child, madam; I'm a midget with bad habits.
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Rachel Devery : You going to St. Francis, too?
Mary Clancy : [indicating her school uniform] Would I be caught dead in this Dior creation otherwise?
Rachel Devery : That's a fact.
Mary Clancy : What's your name?
Rachel Devery : Rachel Devery.
Mary Clancy : No it's not!
Rachel Devery : Huh?
Mary Clancy : It's Fleur de Lis. You're half French.
Rachel Devery : How about that! What's your name?
Mary Clancy : Kim Novak?
Rachel Devery : I like it.
Mary Clancy : So do I. But I'm stuck with "Mary Clancy"!
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Rachel Devery : She said I'm the devil's agent.
Mary Clancy : [laughs] She meant you were my stooge.
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Mary Clancy : [modeling a black corset] Jayne Mansfield.
Rachel Devery : [modeling a plain Jane, beige bra] Rock Hudson.
Mary Clancy : Come on, let's find you a better one.
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Rachel Devery : I think I'm gonna kill myself!
Mary Clancy : Catholics aren't allowed to.
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Sister Clarissa : All right, girls, form a line.
Mary Clancy : We already have, Sister.
Sister Clarissa : Oh. Well then, throw out your chests - and breathe in the fresh air. Out! Out with your chest!
Rachel Devery : It's as out as it will go.
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Rachel Devery : He's a doll. Sort of like, Jack Lemmon, only younger. I *love* Jack Lemmon.
Mary Clancy : Naturally.
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Rachel Devery : What did Mother Superior say to you?
Mary Clancy : I wouldn't repeat it in this sacred place.
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Rachel Devery : [smoking cigars] Where'd you get these?
Mary Clancy : The plumber left them.
[Rachel starts coughing]
Mary Clancy : What's the matter?
Rachel Devery : I'm not sure I like 'em.
Mary Clancy : So you have something you hate that you can give up for Lent.
Rachel Devery : Yeah! Good thinking.