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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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January 1969 (UK)
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In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls. more
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A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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7 nominations
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(4 articles)
IFC Finds 'Cracks' in the System
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(From Rope Of Silicon. 10 September 2009, 4:46 AM, PDT)
(From ioncinema. 12 November 2009)
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My personal favorite
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Maggie Smith | ... | Jean Brodie |
 | Robert Stephens | ... | Teddy Lloyd |
| Pamela Franklin | ... | Sandy |
| Gordon Jackson | ... | Gordon Lowther |
| Celia Johnson | ... | Miss Mackay |
| Diane Grayson | ... | Jenny |
| Jane Carr | ... | Mary McGregor |
| Shirley Steedman | ... | Monica |
| Lavinia Lang | ... | Emily Carstairs |
| Antoinette Biggerstaff | ... | Helen McPhee |
| Margo Cunningham | ... | Miss Campbell |
| Isla Cameron | ... | Miss McKenzie |
| Rona Anderson | ... | Miss Lockhart |
| Ann Way | ... | Miss Gaunt |
| Molly Weir | ... | Miss Allison Kerr |
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116 min
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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The original Broadway production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Jay Presson Allen opened at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York on January 16, 1968 and ran for 379 performances.
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Continuity: In the scene where Mr. Llyod spies Ms. Brodie and the girls from his studio window he is seen wearing dark brown pants. He rushes from the room. When he emerges on the street he is wearing light colored pants.
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Jean Brodie:
[after Miss Mackay has read a supposedly incriminating letter, written by Sandy and Jenny] There's very little for me to say, Miss Mackay in the face of your extraordinary prejudice and hostility.
Miss Mackay: Miss Brodie, I am not asking you to say anything. I am asking... demanding... that you put your signature, your own signature, on a letter of resignation which I have prepared for you.
Jean Brodie: I will not resign.
Miss Mackay: If you will not resign, you will force me to dismiss you.
Jean Brodie: I will not resign and you will not dismiss me, Miss Mackay. You will not use the excuse of that pathetic, that humorous document to blackmail me! Mr. Lowther, you are a witness to this. Miss Mackay has made totally unsupported accusations against my name and yours...
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Miss Mackay: Miss Brodie, I am not asking you to say anything. I am asking... demanding... that you put your signature, your own signature, on a letter of resignation which I have prepared for you.
Jean Brodie: I will not resign.
Miss Mackay: If you will not resign, you will force me to dismiss you.
Jean Brodie: I will not resign and you will not dismiss me, Miss Mackay. You will not use the excuse of that pathetic, that humorous document to blackmail me! Mr. Lowther, you are a witness to this. Miss Mackay has made totally unsupported accusations against my name and yours...
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Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999) (TV)
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It is clearly not the greatest movie of all time, but it is my personal favorite, in part because I am a teacher and--well i almost said anglophile, but are we supposed to call it ecosophile (lover of Scotland)?
I hardly know where to begin. Making those girls look like little girls and then later like grown-up girls. Jean Brodie's incredibly eccentric persona as a teacher until in the end one "girl" figures her out. The complexity of her personality. How perfectly she is played by Maggie Smith in her greatest role. The fact that the movie dares, for its time, portray an illicit affair between a teacher and a student (the French would have had no such qualms). Jean's insouciant insistance that she can teach any way she wants without any fundamental concern for her students. The art teacher's remark that "Mary McGrogan couldn't navigate her way across Edinburgh" after she has been killed in the Spanish civil war (Edinburgh is a famously compact city).
I go on too long. One drawback? That asinine theme song.