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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.
The Corn Is Green: Directed by Irving Rapper. With Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan. A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
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Based on an autobiographical play by Welsh actor and writer Emlyn Williams, The Corn is Green (1945) is the story of a dedicated teacher, Miss Moffat, who opens a school in an impoverished Welsh mining community.
Determined to educate the town's illiterate children, spinster schoolteacher L.C. Moffat (Bette Davis) opens a school in the tiny Welsh coal-mining community of Glansarno. Battling the contrary ...
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Synopsis. In 1895, the inhabitants of Glansarno, a small village in the Welsh countryside, are taken aback when they learn that L. C. Moffat, their newest neighbor, is a forty-year-old English woman named Lily Cristobel, not a man as her Master of Arts degree had led them to expect.
The Corn is Green (1945) The story, based on Emlyn Williams’ autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans (John Dall). 350 IMDb 7.3 1 h 53 min 1945. 13+. Drama. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.59. Buy. SD $8.99.
