A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable twelve-year-old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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| 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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Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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(1867) (uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss
Played by an organ grinder
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The original play was offered to Dame Maggie Smith first. Because of movie commitments, she declined and Vanessa Redgrave played Miss Brodie on stage. However, when this movie was being made, the role of Miss Brodie was offered to Redgrave first. This time, she had prior commitments and declined and Dame Maggie Smith took the role, offered her originally, and won an Oscar for playing it. According to director Ronald Neame, Redgrave phoned him saying that she refused to repeat that "proto-Fascist part". Neame claims he was relieved because he didn't want to use her anyway. 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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Opening credits prologue: EDINBURGH 1932 See more »Soundtracks
An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op.314(1867) (uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss
Played by an organ grinder
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I saw this film thirty years ago and Maggie Smith's performance still rates as one of the finest on screen. The storyline is already well known. I just want to crow about her presence in the movie. This woman even managed to blush when she and Mr Lloyd were caught in a clinch by Mary MacGregor! All these years later I still recall the line she delivered so witheringly when she heard that the music teacher she had once been linked with was finally going the marry the science teacher "Do you not think that with one snap of my fingers I couldn't send Miss (beat) Lockhart back to her gaseous domain!" Rent the video and whoop with delight at the sheer brilliance of this woman.
Robert Stephens was the least convincing of the lead performers, beside his then wife he was positively wooden. I saw them together on the London Stage in Hedda Gabler and they electrified the place! This film though was all about her. Her scenes with the Head Teacher were astonishing " I didn't want to be late - or early!"
A joy!