Gaspar Fomento as Capt. Gaspar Fomento …. Michael Pataki Roberto as Roberto …. Vitanza Ramon as Ramon …. Carmelita Little Girl as Little Girl …. Lew Palter Joe as Joe …. Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Chief Galindo as Chief Galindo …. Manuel Padilla Jr. Marcello as Marcello …. Tony Davis Donald as Donald …. Ernest Sarracino Alfonso T. Gomez as Alfonso T. Gomez …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The large headgear on pound novice Sister Bertrille, of the convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico, enables her to fly in any stiff breeze.
Her gift enables her to aid others, whether they wish it or not. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia In one episode, Sister Bertrille is looking at home movies of herself from when she was a teenager.
The home movies were actually footage from Sally Field's previous series, Gidget Goofs In the opening credits when Sister Bertrille is being dragged along by a dog, a wire can be seen holding her up. Quotes Sister Bertrille : Could you please help?
She is forced to make do with a very tight budget and few supplies or resources to help the kids in her care. Sister Bertrille is very petite and weighs just 90 pounds. It's her low weight, combined with her flared cornette -- that's the headpiece she wears -- that allows her to fly when the winds feel like cooperating.
Marge Redmond plays Sister Jacqueline, who not only narrates the intro to each episode, but also becomes a good friend to Sister Bertrille. Despite his seedy business dealings, he is a good friend to the nuns of the convent, especially Sister Bertrille. In the second episode of the series, Carlos sees Sister Bertrille fly for the first time. The act scares him straight, leading him to give up women, alcohol and gambling -- at least for a while, before he turns back to his old ways.
The school at San Tanco is overcrowded, and the nuns hope to build a larger one. Unfortunately, the only appropriate piece of land for the new school is owned by Carlos, who is reluctant to give up his land.
The other nuns mistakenly think Bertrille is dying after coming in contact with a hibiscus flower, only to learn that she is actually being forced to leave the convent.
In the end, the Reverend Mother allows her to stay because of all the support she receives from the local community. After she is stricken with an ear infection, Sister Bertrille is too dizzy and disoriented to fly. Unfortunately, this leads to confusion with church psychologist Father Lundigan, who thinks the nuns are all suffering from a mental illness. Sister Ana is the Reverend Mother's regular secretary. When she is out sick in season one, a con artist named Bobbye Starr -- girlfriend of mobster Al Caine -- temporarily takes over the job.
To raise money for the convent, the sisters develop a concoction called the Nectar of San Tanco -- which is really juice made from sea grapes. As they put the product out for sale, it ferments a few times, turning from grape juice to wine and then to vinegar. Eventually, the sisters come out of the deal twenty-five cents in the red. After she learns that the citizens of two villages have been feuding over which village is the real Santa Thomasina, Sister Bertrille threatens to split the statue of the matron saint in half if they can't settle their differences.
The two towns agree to leave the statue at a fork in the road between the two villages and use the names East and West Santa Thomasina to resolve their feud. When her elaborate cornette gets wet or loses its starched finish, the nun is stuck with her feet firmly on the ground. When they are named as beneficiaries, the convent receives the contract of a boxer named Buffalo Buzzsaw -- real name Mike.
Mike really, really wants to stay out of the ring, and eventually ends up with a job cooking in Carlos' restaurant. Sister Bertrille finds herself stranded on a desert island after crash landing in a storm. The bad news is that her cornette gets wet and torn, so she can't take off. At least she's not alone, though, after discovering that Carlos is also shipwrecked on the island -- along with his angry date April.
Sister Bertrille pens a tune for Sonny and the Sundowners, who turn it into a trippy recording perfect for fans of psychedelic '60s music. Actress Sally Field's big break came when she began playing the lead role in the TV sitcom Gidget in She next appeared in the hit series The Flying Nun , before moving on to the big screen.
Field is also known for her roles in the films Smokey and the Bandit , Forrest Gump and Lincoln , along with her Tony-nominated stage work. The youngest of two children born to actress Margaret Field, the future star grew up in show business. After Field's parents divorced, her mother married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
Field's stepfather was a strict disciplinarian who expected faithful obedience from Field, her older brother, and half-sister Princess. Mahoney also fought frequently with Field's mother, and the couple's increasingly rocky relationship weighed heavily on the children. Field found solace from her difficult home life by focusing on her extracurricular activities at school.
After finishing up at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California, Field attended an acting workshop at Columbia Studios, which helped launch her film and television career.
She landed the leading role in the television series Gidget , which was based on the popular Sandra Dee film by the same name. Field was only 18 years old when the series debuted in the fall of Petite and perky, she played a teenager on a quest to find fun with her best friend Larue played by Lynette Winter. The show was canceled after one season, but Field became popular with television audiences — so popular, in fact, that the network created another series for her.
Field didn't want to take the part, but her stepfather insisted, telling her, "If you turn down this part, you may never work again. The Flying Nun premiered in September and soon became a huge hit. Viewers seemed to enjoy following the misadventures of quirky, aerodynamic Sister Bertrille.
Behind the scenes, however, Field was miserable. She struggled with the feeling that she would never be considered a serious actress, and the show only magnified that fear. In , she married her high school sweetheart, Steven Craig, and soon became pregnant. Her pregnancy was hidden on the series using creative shots and the folds of her billowy nun's habit. Field wouldn't have to hide for long, though; the show was canceled in , after three seasons on the air.
After giving birth to a second child in , Field returned to acting in with the short-lived sitcom The Girl with Something Extra. Field played a young newlywed with ESP on the show, which lasted only one season. Reconnecting to her craft, Field studied acting at the Actors Studio with famed teacher Lee Strasberg.
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