Sister Act
Sister Act is a 1992 American musical comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Joseph Howard, with musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman. It stars Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program. It also features Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel.
Betty Garrett
"The Jolson Story" had been a huge hit in the United Kingdom, so Garrett and her husband Larry Parks decided to capitalize on its popularity by appearing at the London Palladium and then touring the U.K. with their nightclub act. Its success prompted them to return to the country three times but the increasing popularity of television eventually led to the decline of music hall entertainment. Garrett was then cast opposite Janet Leigh and Jack Lemmon in "My Sister Eileen", a 1955 musical remake of a 1942 film starring Rosalind Russell, when Judy Holliday dropped out of the project due to a contract dispute. The following year she and Parks replaced Holliday and Sydney Chaplin in the Broadway production of "Bells Are Ringing" during their vacation from the show. Over the next two decades she worked sporadically, appearing on Broadway in two short-lived plays ("Beg, Borrow or Steal" with Parks and "A Girl Could Get Lucky" with Pat Hingle) and a musical adaptation of "Spoon River Anthology", and making guest appearances on "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show", "The Lloyd Bridges Show", and "The Fugitive".