Trivia / Change of Habit

• Friendship on the Set: Jane Elliot (Sister Barbara) struck up a strong friendly rapport with Elvis during filming, despite their vastly different backgrounds (Elliot was from New York and was a self-described snob at the time). However, when later asked in an interview if it went even farther beyond that, Elliot winkingly answered "I am not going to tell you that we didn’t sleep together."
• He Also Did: While it was a theatrical film, it was produced by NBC (as part of the development deal for Elvis (NBC TV Special) that NBC agreed to in 1968).
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: The film was initially greenlighted as a Drama vehicle for Mary Tyler Moore with Sister Michelle as the lead character, but after Elvis Presley signed on, the focus shifted to his character John Carpenter.
• Science Marches On: It is now known that autism is biological and has nothing to do with Parental Abandonment, and that rage reduction does nothing but cause PTSD. In fact, Robert W. Zaslow, who supervised the rage reduction scene, was stripped of his medical license in 1971 for severely injuring a young woman under his care.
• Those Two Actors: Mary Tyler Moore (Sister Michelle) and Ed Asner (Lt. Moretti) appear together two years before the debut of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.