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Cast
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| 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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In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls. See more »Parents Guide:
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25 February 1969 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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(uncredited)
Music by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Words by John Fawcett
(sung at dismissal ceremony)
sung off screen by Mr. Lowther at the staff party
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The scene depicting Teddy's (Robert Stephens') art school drawing of a male nude was cut for the Royal Command Performance viewing. Ironically, the other movie considered for the honor was Sweet Charity (1969). See more »Goofs
At the end when Sandy walks out of the school, she passes a 1960s-style concrete lamp post. 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
Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing(uncredited)
Music by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Words by John Fawcett
(sung at dismissal ceremony)
sung off screen by Mr. Lowther at the staff party
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See it for Maggie Smith who was much deserving of her Best Actress Oscar in 1969. I'd rank this performance among the best ever preserved on film. Her character is unlike any you've ever seen and ranks up there with Sandy Dennis in "Up the Down Staircase" and Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, With Love" as one of the most memorable teachers on screen.
Ronald Neame does a nice job of moving the film along so the adapted play doesn't seem stagy. The focus is the wonderful adapted screenplay and the great cast.
The triumph of "Jean Brodie" is the final confrontation scene with Smith and young actress Pamela Franklin.
Don't miss it.