How to Steal a Million
1966
Search results
The Children's Hour (released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand) is a 1961 American drama film produced and directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.
The Children's Hour: Directed by William Wyler. With Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins. A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.
- (19K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1961-12-19
Lillian Hellman ’s The Children’s Hour premiered in New York at the Maxine Elliot Theatre, on November 20, 1934, with a cast of relatively unknown actors. The play was based on an essay the playwright had encountered titled “Closed Doors; or, The Great Drumsheugh Case.”
Produced and directed by Herman Shumlin, The Children's Hour opened November 20, 1934, at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City. The settings by Aline Bernstein were executed by Sointu Syrjala. The three-act drama closed in July 1936 after 691 performances.
Two young teachers, Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn), who met at school when they were 17, build up a private school for girls in conservative New England. Martha's Aunt Lily, an unemployed, elderly actress, lives with the two of them, and teaches elocution.
The Children’s Hour, drama in three acts about the tragic repercussions of a schoolgirl’s malicious gossip by Lillian Hellman, performed and published in 1934. Hellman based the plot on an actual case in 19th-century Edinburgh that was detailed in the essay “Closed Doors, or The Great Drumsheugh.
People also ask
When did 'the children's hour' come out?
When was the Children's Hour based on a true story?
Did Lillian Hellman write the Children's Hour based on a true story?
How many versions of the children's hour have been staged?
Children's Hour, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Recital Opening title sequence and first scene from William Wyler's The Children's Hour, 1961, introduces the Wright-Dobie School and a musical performance led by Aunt Lily (Miriam Hopkins).
