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The Corn Is Green is a 1945 American drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town despite great opposition. It was adapted from the 1938 play of the same name by Emlyn Williams, which originally starred Ethel Barrymore.
The Corn Is Green: Directed by Irving Rapper. With Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan. A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
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- Drama
- Irving Rapper
- 1945-07-14
Determined to educate the town's illiterate children, spinster schoolteacher L.C. Moffat (Bette Davis) opens a school in the tiny Welsh coal-mining community of Glansarno.
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- Irving Rapper
- Drama
- Bette Davis
Based on an autobiographical play by Welsh actor and writer Emlyn Williams, The Corn is Green (1945) is the story of a dedicated teacher, Miss Moffat, who opens a school in an impoverished Welsh mining community. An unschooled but brilliant young miner, Morgan Evans, becomes her protege, and together they work to overcome obstacles to his ...
- Irving Rapper, Joe Cramer, Robert Vreeland
- Bette Davis
1979. 1 hr 40 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Katharine Hepburn and director George Cukor teamed on this movie about a teacher's efforts to educate miners in...
The Corn is Green (1945) The story, based on Emlyn Williams’ autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans (John Dall). 350 IMDb 7.3 1 h 53 min 1945. 13+. Drama.
Determined to educate the town's illiterate children, schoolmarm L.C. Moffat (Katharine Hepburn) opens a school in a dismal Welsh coal-mining community.
- Drama
