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The Children's Hour (released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand) is a 1961 American drama film produced and directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.
The Children's Hour: Directed by William Wyler. With Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins. A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.
- (19K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1961-12-19
When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me. The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight,
Two young teachers, Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn), who met at school when they were 17, build up a private school for girls in conservative New England. Martha's Aunt Lily, an unemployed, elderly actress, lives with the two of them, and teaches elocution.
Directed by: William Wyler. In this provocatively daring film, an attention-seeking schoolgirl vengefully spreads rumors that two of her teachers are lesbian lovers.
- William Wyler
- January 1, 1962
- 108 min
Flinty eyed Karen Balkin plays rotten little Mary Tilford, a manipulative, hysterical, extortionist schoolgirl. Eavesdropping on allusions made behind closed doors, Mary manufactures a lie to convince her grandmother to take her out of The Wright-Dobie School for Girls, where she is disliked.
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The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair.
