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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie premiered at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and was released in UK cinemas on 24 February 1969 and in the US on 2 March 1969. Although the film received positive reviews with major acclaim drawn towards Smith's performance, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $3 million on a $2.76 million budget.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. [1] It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
- Muriel Spark
- 1961
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson. Eccentric well-meaning Scottish schoolteacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress Miss MacKay.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ronald Neame
- 1969-02-25
The plot concerns the unconventional schoolteacher, Miss Jean Brodie, and tells how she seeks to influence a chosen group of schoolgirls - the so-called 'Brodie Set'. They are introduced to us as six pre-adolescent girls and are charming but flawed. Their fates are something that you end caring for deeply.
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- Paperback
- Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a free-spirited teacher at a Scottish girls' school during the 1930s. She encourages her young pupils to embrace romantic ideals ...
- (19)
- Ronald Neame
- PG
- Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Summary. It is the early 1930s. At the Marcia Blaine School, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, a class of ten-year-old girls begins two years of instruction with Miss Jean Brodie, a charismatic teacher at the Junior school who claims again and again to be in her “prime.”. She provides her pupils with an energetic ...
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As the amazing narrative of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) unfolds, those words take on a chilling new meaning. It is the thirties and Jean Brodie, a teacher in her prime, takes in her new class at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland.
