Movie #113 "Cheers for Miss Bishop" is a female "Mr. Holland's Opus" but not near as exciting. It's a long movie steadily building from her first professorial job at the college to her retirement gathering, but I wanted to see more of what she did IN the classroom throughout the years. It referred to the changes she found she had to make as the years went by, but didn't really SHOW them, which I wanted to see more. The poor woman evidently was too busy and involved with her students (although you didn't see that, either) that she lived alone (as an unmarried woman) most of her life -----i.e. until her cousin died having a baby and she was left to raise that little girl, and that little girl's little girl, as well. But once again, it didn't deal with the problems of juggling job and family during that time period. Just not enough here to make interesting --- but the retirement party was a nice tribute to the profession of teaching, and I respected that.
Average rating: 3.045
I gave it 3 stars
Cheers for Miss Bishop
(1941) NR
This nostalgic drama follows the life and career of Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott), a beloved Midwestern University teacher whose former students gather to pay tribute to her at a retirement ceremony honoring her 50 years of dedicated service. Based on a novel by Bess Streeter Aldrich and told via flashback, the film also stars Sterling Holloway, Rosemary DeCamp (in her big-screen bow) and Edmund Gwenn as the college president.
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