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Jean Brodie. Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of the same name—both by Jay Presson Allen —which were both based on the novel. Miss Brodie is a highly idealistic character with an exaggerated romantic view of the world; many ...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson. An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ronald Neame
- 1969-02-25
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.
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 theme song, "Jean" written by Rod McKuen, was also nominated for a Best Song Academy Award.
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Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie weaves in several elements, in terms of both plot and character, to demonstrate the limits to which Miss Brodie and her students can dictate the course of their own lives.
84% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 85% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a free-spirited teacher at a Scottish girls' school during the 1930s. She encourages her young pupils...
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- Drama
- PG
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
