Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie
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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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ronald Neame
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. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
- Muriel Spark
- 1961
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...
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- Ronald Neame
- PG
- Maggie Smith
Feb 6, 2018 · Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of the twentieth century's best—the story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special—and ultimately dangerous—relationship with six of her students.
- Muriel Spark
- $4.99
- Harper Perennial
‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life,’ states Miss Jean Brodie, the titular character of Muriel Spark’s best regarded novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. This slim and seductive masterpiece tells the story of the ‘Brodie set,’ the young girls who were the pupils of Miss Brodie in Junior school and ...
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.
