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Academy Award winner Bette Davis stars as a schoolteacher determined to help the people of a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining town. Discouraged by students who don't believe knowledge will help them, a mine owner who wants to keep his workers illiterate and a local squire who doubts the villagers can improve their lives, the teacher begins to doubt that she can help. But then she discovers a ...
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.
Frank Cavett. Screenplay. Casey Robinson. Screenplay. When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
Mar 14, 2018 · In choosing to play a starchy, no-nonsense feminist and teacher in The Corn Is Green, a woman who scorns conventional romantic love and marriage, Davis was offering a kind of rebuke to Curtiz, who had been dismissive and tyrannical with her in the past, calling her a “no-good-sexless-son-of-a-bitch” on the set of The Cabin in the Cotton (1932).
CBS. Release. January 29, 1979. ( 1979-01-29) The Corn Is Green is a 1979 American made-for-television drama film starring Katharine Hepburn as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was directed by George Cukor, the tenth and last collaboration on film between the director and ...
The Corn Is Green Reviews. Irving Rapper's screen version of Emlyn Williams semi-autobiographical play is well acted by Bette Davis as the spinster-teacher, but is too theatrical, sentimental and ...
