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A Balasaur Score of 62 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
20 audience votes
Key crew
- Tay GarnettDirector
- Adelaide HeilbronScreenplay
- Sheridan GibneyScreenplay
- Edward WardOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Martha ScottElla Bishop
- William GarganSam Peters
- Edmund GwennPresident Corcoran
- Sterling HollowayChris Jensen
- Dorothy PetersonMrs. Bishop
- Sidney BlackmerJohn Stevens
- Mary AndersonAmy Saunders
- Donald DouglasDelbert Thompson
- Marsha HuntHope Thompson
- John ArcherRichard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)
- Lois RansonGretchen Clark
- Rosemary DeCampMinna Fields
Stills
Themes
teacherunrequited love19th century1900s