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Sister Act (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Screenwriter Paul Rudnick wrote the original script back in 1987 and Bette Midler was supposed to be cast for the role of Dolores. After Midler had left the project, the script underwent several re-writes by screenwriters Carrie Fisher, Eleanor Bergstein, Nancy Meyers, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and Robert Harling. As Rudnick did not consider the final draft of the movie as his own work, the pseudonym 'Joseph Howard' was chosen by him after his own suggestion for the writer's credit ('Screenplay by Goofy') had been rejected.
  
  
• The church in which Whoopi Goldberg takes refuge is St. Paul's Catholic Church located at 221 Valley Street (near Church St.) in San Francisco's Outer Mission district.
  
  
• The school exterior shown in the opening shot is St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in Reno. It was not operating as a school when the picture was made.
  
  
• The Reno police station shown is actually the main post office in downtown Reno, with some (real) patrol cars parked outside for set dressing. The patrol cars were driven by officers working security on the set. The real police station in Reno didn't look as much like a police station to the film's director.
  
  
• One of the teenage girls that Delores befriends is played by Desreta Jackson, who played Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in The Color Purple (1985) as a young girl.
  
  
• An opening scene shows Dolores as a young girl, played by Isis Carmen Jones. Jones had previously played a "de-aged" version of Goldberg's character Guinan, in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)
  
  
• The Mother Superior dubs Deloris "Sister Mary Clarence". She states that the "Clarence" part of the moniker derives from "Saint Clarence of Concord". While there is no St. Clarence from Concord in conventional Roman Catholicism, there is a St. Clarence from Vienne who is, coincidentally, the patron Saint of prisoners.
  
  
• Beth Fowler's film debut.
  
  
• The Rolling Stones cover shown during the closing credits is real.
  
  
• When the marquis for the Moonlight Lounge is first shown at the beginning of the movie, the featured band name is the "Ronells." In the scene where the nuns are going to rescue Sister Mary Clarence, the featured name of the band is the "Leerons."
  
  

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