Maggie Smith
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Charismatic but slightly batty teacher Jean Brodie, Maggie Smith, believes she is in her ‘prime' and attempts to influence her favorite students, the intelligent Sandy, Pamela Franklin, the...
Sandy realizes the dangerous game Miss Brodie is playing and after one of the other girls is killed, sets out to stop her. — garykmcd. Based on Muriel Spark 's best-selling novel, the film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie earned a Best Actress Oscar for its star, Maggie Smith, in 1969.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark. 3.71. 55,058 ratings4,206 reviews. A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods. Genres Fiction Classics Historical Fiction Scotland Novels British Literature Literary Fiction. ...more.
Based on the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (London, 1961) and the play of the same name by Jay Presson Allen (Torquey, England, 5 Apr 1966). A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Summary. It is the early 1930s. 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.”. She provides her pupils with an energetic ...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, novel by Muriel Spark, published in 1961 and adapted for the stage in 1966. The story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher who inspires cultlike reverence in her young students, the novel was Spark’s best-known work. It explores themes of innocence, betrayal, and cold rationality opposed to unchecked emotionalism.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: With Geraldine McEwan, Lynsey Baxter, Amanda Kirby, Vivienne Ross. The series tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, revealing the challenges they face growing up in 1930s Scotland.
