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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) [PG]

Featuring:
Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens

Written by:
Muriel Spark
Jay Presson Allen

Directed by:
Ronald Neame


Release Date:
February 24, 1969

Original Title:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Alternate Titles:
La primavera de una solterona
Les Belles années de Miss Jean Brodie

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Twentieth Century Productions

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 12  US: PG 

Runtime: 116

In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.

Overview from TheMovieDB

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

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Overview from Open Movies

A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the one hundred percent support of her favorite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is in her "prime" anymore. No longer swayed by her teacher's eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself.

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Rankings and Honors

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes 85%
Awards Won: Won 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 10 nominations total

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Production

Art Direction:
Brian Herbert

Assistant Director:
Ted Sturgis

Casting:
Anne Donne

Co-Producer:
James Cresson

Director:
Ronald Neame

Director of Photography:
Ted Moore

Editor:
Norman Savage

Novel:
Muriel Spark

Original Music Composer:
Rod McKuen

Producer:
Robert Fryer

Production Design:
John Howell

Screenplay:
Jay Presson Allen

Set Dresser:
Pamela Cornell

Theatre Play:
Jay Presson Allen

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