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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.
Up the Down Staircase: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White. The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
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 .
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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.
Like Alice Blake (superbly played by Ellen O'Mara ), a chubby, painfully shy girl who falls in love with a handsome English teacher. Or Joe Ferone ( Jeff Howard ), who can earn good grades when he wants to but gets more attention if he doesn't.
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries.
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.
Up the Down Staircase. On her first day at Calvin Coolidge High, fledgling teacher Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis) encounters an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an...
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May 23, 1991 · Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education.
- Bel Kaufman
