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Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along with Patrick Bedford and Jean Stapleton. The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher.
A 1967 drama film about a young female teacher in an inner-city New York high school. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
- (2.5K)
- Drama
- Robert Mulligan
- 1967-06-28
Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published on January 27, 1965, which spent 64 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 1967 it was released as a film starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton and Eileen Heckart.
- Bel Kaufman
- 1964
Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose clash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education.
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- Paperback
- Bel Kaufman
A film about a new teacher in a problem school, starring Sandy Dennis as Sylvia Barrett. Roger Ebert praises the film's authenticity, realism and Dennis' performance, and criticizes the education system and the genre conventions.
Bel Kaufman's autobiographical 1965 novel Up the Down Staircase spent 64 weeks on The New York Times' bestseller list (five months of that at number one) and when published in paperback sold 1.5 million copies in only thirty days.
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A young female English teacher faces the challenges of a chaotic and bureaucratic inner-city high school in New York. The film follows her experiences with students, administration, and colleagues in her first semester.
