Mary Wickes, an actress who played a spirited nun in "Sister Act," died Sunday following complications from surgery. She was 79.

Wickes' credits included 50 movies, 27 Broadway productions and 10 TV series.Wickes appeared opposite Whoopi Goldberg as Sister Mary Lazarus in "Sister Act" and "Sister Act II: Back in the Habit."

Her other films include "The Man Who Came to Dinner" "Now, Voyager," "White Christmas," "Little Women," "The Music Man," and a voice in the Disney animated feature, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

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