Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Change of Habit is a 1969 American musical drama film directed by William A. Graham and starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. Written by James Lee, S.S. Schweitzer, and Eric Bercovici, based on a story by John Josephand Richard Morris, the film is about three Catholic nuns, preparing for their final vows, who are sent to a rough inner city neighborhood dressed as lay missionaries to work at a clinic run by a young doctor. Their lives become complicated by the realities they face in the inner city, and by the doctor who falls in love with one of the nuns.The film was produced by Joe Connelly for NBC Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. Filmed on location in the Los Angeles area and at the Universal Studios during March and April of 1969, Change of Habit was released in the United States on November 10, 1969, which was the same day that the television series Sesame Street premiered on NET. It spent four weeks on the Variety Box Office Survey, peaking at #17. It appears to have been originally conceived as a made-for-television film but was released theatrically instead.Change of Habit was Presley's 31st and final film acting role; his remaining film appearances were in concert documentaries. The film was Moore's fourth and final film under her brief Universal Pictures contract; she would not appear in another theatrical movie until Ordinary People in 1980. Moore and Edward Asner, who also appears in the film, would go on to star in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one of the most popular television shows in the 1970s.The film is supposedly set in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York City's Washington Street, a real street located on lower Manhattan Island; however, the film was shot in the City of Los Angeles and the Universal Studio backlot. The locales are cleverly dressed to evoke New York City (without ever mentioning it by name), right down to the 1960s-era General Motors transit buses and NYPD-like squad cars. The film's fictional Fiesta of San Juan de Cheguez (an ersatz saint who was said to have driven the snakes out of Puerto Rico) held August 3 calls to mind Little Italy's Festival of San Gennaro (a real Italian saint) held in September.. }
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- Change_of_Habit abstract "Change of Habit is a 1969 American musical drama film directed by William A. Graham and starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. Written by James Lee, S.S. Schweitzer, and Eric Bercovici, based on a story by John Josephand Richard Morris, the film is about three Catholic nuns, preparing for their final vows, who are sent to a rough inner city neighborhood dressed as lay missionaries to work at a clinic run by a young doctor. Their lives become complicated by the realities they face in the inner city, and by the doctor who falls in love with one of the nuns.The film was produced by Joe Connelly for NBC Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. Filmed on location in the Los Angeles area and at the Universal Studios during March and April of 1969, Change of Habit was released in the United States on November 10, 1969, which was the same day that the television series Sesame Street premiered on NET. It spent four weeks on the Variety Box Office Survey, peaking at #17. It appears to have been originally conceived as a made-for-television film but was released theatrically instead.Change of Habit was Presley's 31st and final film acting role; his remaining film appearances were in concert documentaries. The film was Moore's fourth and final film under her brief Universal Pictures contract; she would not appear in another theatrical movie until Ordinary People in 1980. Moore and Edward Asner, who also appears in the film, would go on to star in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one of the most popular television shows in the 1970s.The film is supposedly set in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York City's Washington Street, a real street located on lower Manhattan Island; however, the film was shot in the City of Los Angeles and the Universal Studio backlot. The locales are cleverly dressed to evoke New York City (without ever mentioning it by name), right down to the 1960s-era General Motors transit buses and NYPD-like squad cars. The film's fictional Fiesta of San Juan de Cheguez (an ersatz saint who was said to have driven the snakes out of Puerto Rico) held August 3 calls to mind Little Italy's Festival of San Gennaro (a real Italian saint) held in September.".