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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Ronald Neame never read the novel from which this film is adapted.
  
  
• Seventy-five girls were needed for the film, and about 500 showed when auditions were held in London. Faced with such an overwhelming number, the director's assistant separated the girls into more manageable groups of twenty. The director then asked each girl to giggle, and he made his selections based on how well the girls could do so.
  
  
• The school desks had to be raised so that some of the girls wouldn't look as grown up as they really were. In fact, one of the girls was a twenty year old mother.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Last feature film of Rona Anderson.
  
  
• According to Pamela Franklin, even though they were 18, she and the other young girls were asked not to eat their lunch in the Pinewood cafeteria in their school uniform costumes for appearance's sake as beer and wine was served there.
  
  
• The scene depicting Teddy's art school drawing of a male nude was cut for the Royal Command Performance viewing. Ironically the other film considered for the honor was Sweet Charity (1969).
  
  
• According to director Ronald Neame, his own grandson posed on the potty as the baby for Teddy's family portrait.
  
  
• Last cinema film of Celia Johnson.
  
  

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