Showbiz is a tough racket -everybody knows that and many movies have been made exploiting that cliche, a la "A Star Is Born". Connie Francis was a very successful recording actress, but her movie acting career went nowhere, and she ended up starring on the small screen in this obscure Chrysler Theatre segment.
Oddly at this point her acting career was being paralleled by a 9-years-younger Sally Field. Connie's movies versus Sally on TV as "Gidget", and here we have Connie as a singing nun, a year before Sally as a flying nun.
But Sally eventually emerged as an acting superstar in a career spanning six decades. Connie said goodbye to acting with this pleasant, but oh so saccharine drama about a pop singer turned nun (!) who becomes a hospital administrator and somehow saves the future of a rock singer with a bad back. Sounds schmaltzy because it is.
She gets to sing a variety of songs here, from folk to show tunes, and a fellow Italian-American plays her sort-of romantic interest (hey, remember that she's a nun!). The main story is hokey: a truly ridiculous rock group called The Savages (no resemblance at all to Eric Burdon and the Animals) wear gaudy sports jackets and hideous, ill-fitting Beatles wigs. Their singer needs a back operation from doc Farentino, but he's more interested in success than his onw health. Connie has to save the day by convincing him to go under the knife, and even switchr from rock group stardom to becoming a solo singer like she was.
This shouldn't have been the kiss of death for Connie as an actress, but that's showbiz!