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Writers:
Bel Kaufman (novel)
Tad Mosel (screenplay)
Release Date:
19 July 1967 (USA) more
Tagline:
Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher..." more
Plot:
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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Up the Down Staircase Realistic Schoolhouse Dealings *** more (24 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sandy Dennis | ... | Sylvia Barrett | |
| Patrick Bedford | ... | Paul Barringer | |
| Eileen Heckart | ... | Henrietta Pastorfield | |
| Ruth White | ... | Beatrice Schacter | |
| Jean Stapleton | ... | Sadie Finch | |
| Sorrell Booke | ... | Dr. Bestor | |
| Roy Poole | ... | James J. Mc Habe | |
| Florence Stanley | ... | Ella Friedenberg | |
| Vinnette Carroll | ... | The Mother | |
| Janice Mars | ... | Miss Gordon | |
| Loretta Leversee | ... | Social Studies Teacher | |
| John Callahan | |||
| Denis Fay | |||
| Otto Lomax | |||
| Martha Greenhouse | ... | Albert Kagan |
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USA:124 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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This movie was filmed in a real live New York City school building. While many people claim that it was filmed in Hell's Kitchen at John Jay College, several landmarks suggest that it was filmed in El Barrio, a section of Manhattan near Spanish Harlem, at J.H.S. #99. more
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Factual errors: During the opening montage establishing the first day of school in September in a New York high school, several shots were obviously filmed in dead of winter with extras in heavy coats, gray skies, etc. contrasting wildly with scenes of sunny skies and lightweight costumes of main characters. more
Quotes:
Sylvia Barrett: If you deny what you know, or what you are, or where you are, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die. more
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Referenced in "The Replacements: Hollywoodn't (#3.11)" (2008) more
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Sandy Dennis was realistic as the young idealistic teacher trying to cope in a traditional urban setting in "Up the Down Staircase," based on Bel Kaufman's best seller.
You really have to be a teacher or at least know one to have any idea of what is going on in our public schools.
Jean Stapleton's Sadie Finch was perfect. As the school secretary, she thought she ran the place. She literally did being constantly on the intercom stating to ignore the continuously ringing fire alarms.
To this very day, sadly, there is no solution to the problems of urban education. We try this program, this initiative, this idea-but nothing really works, when you have groups of students dedicated to the belief that nobody learns when they're around in school.