Sister Act Sister Act Sister Act is a 1992 American 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. "Sister Act" was one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s, grossing $231 million worldwide. The film spawned a franchise, which consists of a 1993 sequel, "", and a musical adaptation, which premiered in 2006. A remake
The Devil in a Convent in the same year, as well as his strongly pro-Dreyfus film series "The Dreyfus Affair". The film may have been inspired in part by the phantasmagoria productions of the French magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert, known by the stage name "Robertson". Méliès himself plays the Devil in the film. "The Devil in a Convent" was likely the first Méliès film to take advantage of dissolves as a transition effect. "The Devil in a Convent" was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 185–187 in its catalogues, which also specified the film's three scenes ("1. Les nonnes, le sermon. 2. Les