Aug 11-17 Whoopi Goldberg Week: She’s become a corny tv lady these days, but let’s not forget that at her peak Whoopi was one of the funniest people alive.

Directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Paul Rudnick, Sister Act was one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s. It’s about Deloris Wilson (Whoopi Goldberg), who made fun of the nuns when she was in school, becomes a lounge singer dating organized crime figure Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel) and goes into hiding at Saint Katherine’s Parish as Sister Mary Clarence along with Reverend Mother (Maggie Smith), Sister Mary Lazarus (Mary Wickes), Sister Mary Patrick (Kathy Najimy) and Sister Mary Robert (Wendy Makkena).

The new Sister ends up leading the choir to national attention, which leads to the criminals finding her, putting a price on her head. Of course, everything turns out just fine.

Initially intended for Bette Midler, this was the subject of a major lawsuit. Actress Donna Douglas and her partner Curt Wilson filed a $200 million lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, their production companies and Creative Artists Agency, claiming Sister Act was plagiarized from the book A Nun in the Closet. In 1994, Douglas and Wilson declined a $1 million offer as they wanted to win the case. They didn’t. Neither was a nun by the name of Delois Blakely, whose autobiography, The Harlem Street Nun, was similar and was sent to Disney several times.