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Gina Dalfonzo

@ginadalfonzo.bsky.social

Aside from the big ones -- #AuntieMame, #Gypsy, #TheTroubleWithAngels -- #NightMustFall and #TheVelvetTouch are not to be missed. #SUTS #TCMParty

And the Runner-Up Is @andtherunnerupis.bsky.social · Aug 17

Academy Award nominee Rosalind Russell is TCM's Summer Under the Stars spotlight for Monday, Aug. 17!

Here's the full TCM schedule. All times EST.

6:00 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
7:30 AM Rendezvous (1935)
9:30 AM Live, Love and Learn (1937)
11:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
1:00 PM Design for Scandal (1941)
2:30 PM The Met in Bombay (1941)
4:15 PM Roughly Speaking (1945)
6:15 PM The Velvet Touch (1948)
8:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
10:30 PM Gypsy (1962)
1:00 AM The Trouble With Angels (1966)
3:00 AM A Majority of One (1961)

August 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM

DD

@gingergray.bsky.social

Thank you for this. I love #TheTroubleWithAngels and to this day I cry at the end.

I first watched it when I was little and loved it then too.

#IdaLupino #TCMParty #FilmSky #MovieSky

P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · May 21

Many have wondered why the last film Ida Lupino directed, “The Trouble With Angels,” is such a departure from her others. She explained why at the time, as quoted below.

(For context, Bill Frye was the producer of “Angels,” who Lupino had worked with on the TV show “Thriller” many times.)

Newspaper article excerpt from Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, April 24, 1966.

Getting back to “The Trouble With Angels,” Ida remarked that the film is an all-family movie, with great fun and human interest.

"I think the real reason I decided to do it, after directing all those chillers for Bill Frye, was because my daughter Bridget, who's 14, always wants to go to the movies on the weekend.

"I'd look through the lists, and aside from Disney and a few isolated others, there was nowhere I could take her."

Color photo of Lupino on location for The Trouble With Angels in 1965. She is standing in a field next to a large camera tripod. Two directors chairs are behind her, labeled “Mother Superior” (partially obscured) and “Rosalind Russell.”

May 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM

Bruce Fulton

@dbfulton.bsky.social

Late-career Rosalind Russell playing a nun in a Hayley Mills film: indisputably hot.
#TheTroubleWithAngels #TCMParty

December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Craig Can’t Even

@craigcanteven.bsky.social

Love an animated opening sequence to a live action film. And I love this film, but fear I cannot stay up for it tonight. Forgive me, Hayley and Roz! #TheTroubleWithAngels #TCMParty

August 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM

David McMillion

@dmreds.bsky.social

#TheTroublewithAngels

August 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

The animated opening credits were done by The DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, the studio behind “The Pink Panther” (youtu.be/tDzaS5NXuII?...)
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels #animation

August 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM

Morgan Robinson

@thepurpledon.bsky.social

#PodernFamily #PodNation #ItsAWonderful1 #TheTroubleWithAngels #HayleyMills #RosalindRussell #IdaLupino

March 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM

OsoAnimation

@osoanimation.bsky.social

The 10 Greatest Young Adult Books From the 60s! The Outsiders, The Sterile Cuckoo, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear ... youtu.be/CkOBr1Q1PEk #youngadultbooks #novels #books #60s #theoutsiders #thesterilecuckoo #lisabrightanddark #thetroublewithangels

The 10 Greatest Young Adult Books From the 60s!The Outsiders,The Sterile Cuckoo,Lisa Bright and Dark

YouTube video by OsoAnimation

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April 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM

It's A Wonderful Podcast

@itsawonderful1.bsky.social

Which of these episodes are you most excited to hear? #PodernFamily #ItsAWonderful1 #IdaLupino #InternationalWomensMonth #OldHollywood #Outrage #TheHitchHiker #TheBigamist #TheTroubleWithAngels

February 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM

Stan 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍑💙

@stanvahi.bsky.social

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just posters
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Day 9
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"The Trouble With Angels" (1966)
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#Films
#Filmsky🎥
#Movies
#Moviesky🎬🍿
#TheTroubleWithAngels

December 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM

LTL

@lancetlawrence.bsky.social

Who was this movie for ....was this supposed to be for teenage girls....like why would she want to be a nun...Go experience the world #tcmparty #thetroublewithangels

December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

BTW stuffing your windows with a blanket/pillow/towel totally works to help trap heat. My bedroom at home has a bay window and doing that totally made a difference during these past few big freezes
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels

August 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM

It's A Wonderful Podcast

@itsawonderful1.bsky.social

Episode 411 - March 27

THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (1966)

Closing the series with lighter fare as #HayleyMills leads a duo of trouble-making teens making life difficult for the nuns in charge of their Catholic all girls school!

#RosalindRussell co-stars

#TheTroubleWithAngels

February 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

“The Trouble with Angels” (1966) was the final film directed by Actress-Filmmaker Ida Lupino. She directed TV for the remainder of her career. (Pictured: Ida Lupino on the set with stars Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills)
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels #IdaLupino #RosalindRussell #HayleyMills

August 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM

Glory Fink

@gloryfink.bsky.social

chapter 17 The Trouble with Angels contains: 📚💙🪐⚡🎧

archangels at waffle house
and a heavenly murder mystery dinner where the corpse would not respect procedure

for readers who like cozy-horror satire:
open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

#TheTroubleWithAngels #AudioFiction #Fantasy #CozyHorror

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative)

Listen now | 🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative) | When the fate of humanity is still hanging somewh...

open.substack.com

April 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM

Glory Fink

@gloryfink.bsky.social

A bonus snippet from The Trouble with Angels Chapter 17 📚💙🪐⚡🎧

for readers who like celestial chaos, afterlife bureaucracy, and cozy-horror satire with heart:
open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

#TheTroubleWithAngels #AudioFiction #Fantasy #CozyHorror

The Waffle House kept going.
Humans kept trying.
Not gracefully. Not consistently. Not with the kind of composure Heaven liked to pretend mattered. They tried while hungry. They tried while tired. They tried in the middle of embarrassment, heartbreak, and shifts that ran too long, conversations that should have ended but didn’t, and nights that had gone sideways hours before.
They made food. Shared it. Stayed. Apologized badly. Laughed too hard. Came undone in public and were gathered back together by caffeine, comfort, or somebody saying honey like it still meant something altogether more divine.
Gabriel watched them with that same softened attention.
At last they said, “Humans keep trying.”
Michael nodded. “So did we.”
Gabriel was quiet for a beat.
Then, softer still, they said, “So do we.”

April 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM

Glory Fink

@gloryfink.bsky.social

A snippet from The Trouble with Angels Chapter 17 📚💙🪐⚡🎧

for readers who like celestial chaos, afterlife bureaucracy, and cozy-horror satire with heart:
open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

#TheTroubleWithAngels #AudioFiction #Fantasy #CozyHorror

Gabriel had forgotten how loud humans were when they were tired.
Not loud in the catastrophic sense. Not loud like battle or collapse or Revelation. Loud in the smaller, stranger way of mortal creatures trying to outwit exhaustion with sugar, caffeine, and the stubborn conviction that whatever had happened to them up to this point in the evening could still be redeemed by hash browns and a conversation that should have ended in the parking lot but had somehow made it all the way to a booth under fluorescent light.
Michael seemed completely at ease in the middle of it.
That, more than the place itself, was what unnerved Gabriel.
The Waffle House sat off the road like an afterthought the universe had accidentally made permanent. Its yellow sign buzzed faintly against the dark. Inside, the air smelled of coffee, hot grease, syrup, onions, and a kind of exhausted civic tenderness no angel had ever successfully replicated by committee. Every surface shone with that peculiar human compromise between cleanliness and overuse. The booths were cracked in places. The laminated menus had the texture of something handled by generations of people who had come there hungry, grieving, drunk, hopeful, or all four.

April 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

I love this film even if the ending is a but rushed
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels

August 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

Neither Hayley Mills, June Harding or Mary Wickes (who’d played Sister Clarissa) knew how to swim so they were supposed to learn at a YMCA before filming began. Wickes didn’t and could only be in the shallow end with assistance.
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels

August 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

To be fair, the original dress was at least dress shaped and had the correct number of holes???
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels

August 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them)

@analgesicsleep.bsky.social

If Rachel seems a little Mature™️ that’s because June Harding was 28 when she made this film. Her partner in crime Hayley Mills was 19.
#MusComEnt #TheTroubleWithAngels #JuneHarding #HayleyMills