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- The play and the film tell the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress Miss Cooke.
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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 .
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The play and the film tell the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress Miss Cooke.
- (3.2K)
- Drama
- Irving Rapper
- 1945-07-14
May 30, 2011 · The Corn is Green is a great old fashioned melodrama with the added emotional depth of being based on a true story. John Dall and Joan Lorring were both nominated for Supporting Oscars and Bette Davis gives one of her best and most restrained performances as the driven Lily Moffat.
- Warner Bros. Pictures
The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams.The play premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in September 1938; with Sybil Thorndike as Miss Moffat and Williams himself portraying Morgan Evans, the West End production ran in all for 600 performances.
- September 20, 1938
- Emlyn Williams
- Comedy
The Corn Is Green, a sentimental, respectful film adaptation of Emlyn Williams's semiautobiographical 1938 play—a long running Broadway hit with Ethel Barrymore in the lead role—exemplifies that theme. It’s directed in static, theatrical fashion—stage sets, lots of speechifying—by Irving Rapper ( Now Voyager, 1942).
The Corn Is Green. The play and the film tell the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress Miss Cooke. According to director Irving Rapper, when supporting players Joan Lorring and John Dall received Oscar nominations and she did not, star Bette Davis was chagrined.
Mar 14, 2018 · The Corn Is Green is paced and edited in a very energetic way that seeks to distract the audience from the fact that it is based on a play that takes place mainly in one room. There are four actors in the cast who had appeared on stage with Barrymore: Mildred Dunnock, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, and Gwyneth Hughes.
