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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 | |
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Lavinia Lang | ... | Emily Carstairs |
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Antoinette Biggerstaff | ... | Helen McPhee |
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Margo Cunningham | ... | Miss Campbell |
| Isla Cameron | ... | Miss McKenzie | |
| Rona Anderson | ... | Miss Lockhart | |
| Ann Way | ... | Miss Gaunt | |
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Molly Weir | ... | Miss Allison Kerr |
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A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the one hundred percent support of her favorite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is in her "prime" anymore. No longer swayed by her teacher's eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself. Written by Rhino <rhino@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Country:
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25 February 1969 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Die besten Jahre der Miss Jean Brodie See more »Company Credits
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Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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(uncredited)
Scottish Traditional
Lyrics by Adam Skirving
(sung by Mr Lowther and the girls)
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Originally released March 1969 in the U.S., it was re-released after Dame Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress in April 1970 and brought the studio an additional 1.9 million dollars. See more »Goofs
The telephone on Miss McKay's desk is from the 1940s. The transmitter (what you talk into) would have been different, and the dial would have been plain black, instead of stainless steel in 1932. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: EDINBURGH 1932 See more »Soundtracks
Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?(uncredited)
Scottish Traditional
Lyrics by Adam Skirving
(sung by Mr Lowther and the girls)
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This is my favourite movie ever. It's made 19 years before I was born, but I don't care. I quite started crying after I'd seen this movie... Maggie Smith may be as old as my grandfather, whatever. She's the most wonderful actress ever... Oh, for heaven's sake, if ever someone deserved an Oscar...
What more can I say? Miss Jean Brodie is a dangerous, hypocrite and narcistic woman, and yet you like her. You have to like her. When you watch the movie, you know she's a facist, and you know that what she preaches is rubbish, but you just do not caze. Miss Brodie stands for "art, beauty and truth" and you just feel she's just deceived and too progressive for her time. But, as Sandy says it in the end of the movie, she is "a dangerous woman". Yet I love her.
And I love Maggie Smith. Dear Dame Maggie, if you ever read this, you are just... so... damn... bloody... great.
Oh for heaven's sake... go and watch this movie.