Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

The WOMAN you'll never forget! The LOVE STORY you'll never forget! The PICTURE you'll never forget!

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.

Date of release
1941-02-21
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Tay Garnett

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Cheers for Miss Bishop is a 1941 American drama film based on the novel Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett, produced by Richard A. Rowland and released through United Artists. Martha Scott stars in the title role, and the other cast members include William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Marsha Hunt, Don Douglas and Sidney Blackmer.

Production

Scholars such as David Bordwell have noted Cheers for Miss Bishop as one of the first films to incorporate autobiographical voiceover in its use of flashback narrative as Ella remembers her life from her graduation at Midwestern University in the 1880s to her retirement in the 1930s. Director Tay Garnett employed fading transitions to symbolize the change in time. The film's makeup director Don L. Cash aged the actors distinctly through decades.

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