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Publicity Still from "The Flying Nun"
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A publicity still from the ABC television situation comedy, "The Flying Nun," which starred Sally Field (center), as Sister Bertrille. With her are actors Marge Redmond, left, and Shelley Morrison. "The Flying Nun" television series was based on the book, "The Fifteenth Pelican" by Wisconsin writer Tere Rios Versace. Confusingly, Versace also researched a book on Sister Mary Aquinas, the real flying nun from Manitowoc, although it was never published.
August 17, 1967
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