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Let me shine some additional light here. Warners dumped their three-track album masters for The Music Man, Auntie Mame, and The Nun's Story. All I can tell you is they were retrieved from the trash, I've heard them, and they are superb. If Warners weren't impossible for us, I would do The Nun's Story in a heartbeat - the three-track tapes sound great.
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Wow, I've seen the movie multiple times, years ago, but I never read the book and wasn't familiar with the story of the real women involved.
I read up a bit on the true story today, and it's absolutely fascinating. I'd say it's just as gripping as the movie, if not more so.
The book was billed as a "novel," but it was a (lightly) fictionalized account of the experiences of a Belgian nun, Marie Louise Habets (I know, the last name is kind of amazing), who met an American writer, Kathryn Hulme, just after WWII, in 1945, when they were both working as relief workers in liberated Europe.
Most of the accounts kind of dance around the truth, using famously coded terms like "lifelong friends" and "companions" to talk of the two women becoming close. Hulme apparently teased Habets's secret backstory from her (she had not revealed to anyone that she was a former nun), helping Habets deal with her PTSD. The two of them moved together to America, with Hulme sponsoring Habets's visa. They then lived together as a couple for the next 40 years. Hulme left her entire estate to Habets, who then passed too, leaving the estate in turn to her many relatives, and inadvertently leaving it impossible to establish copyright for any of Hulme's books, which are now apparently all out of print as a result.
They shared a long life together, in an era when that was profoundly difficult. This feels like it would make a fascinating movie in its own right.
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