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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark.
Eccentric well-meaning Scottish schoolteacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress Miss MacKay.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. [1] It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961.
Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a free-spirited teacher at a Scottish girls' school during the 1930s. She encourages her young pupils to embrace romantic ideals, educating them about love and art...
At the Marcia Blaine School, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, a class of ten-year-old girls begins two years of instruction with Miss Jean Brodie, a charismatic teacher at the Junior school who claims again and again to be in her “prime.”
An inspiration to the young girls she teaches and a challenge to the 1932 Edinburgh school who retains her services, Jean Brodie (Smith) espouses her wisdom on art and music, defends fascism, and otherwise encourages fiercely independent thinking in her students.
Feb 6, 2018 · At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime.
