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Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 27 september 1996 with Moira Kelly
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
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Add to a movie listEntertaining Angels: the Dorothy Day Story is a 1996 independent film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper. The film stars Moira Kelly as Day, Heather Graham, Lenny Von Dohlen and Martin Sheen.
Writer John Wells and actors Kelly and Sheen also collaborated in the NBC dramatic series The West Wing. Kelly and Von Dohlen previously appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Actors
Moira Kelly
(Dorothy Day)
Heather Graham
(Maggie Bowen)
Lenny Von Dohlen
(Forster Batterham)
Martin Sheen
(Peter Maurin)
Melinda Dillon
(Sister Aloysius)
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