Colorized Romance Film: Cheers for Miss Bishop - Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Director: Tay Garnett
Writers: Bess Streeter Aldrich(novel "Miss Bishop"), Stephen Vincent Benet(screen adaptation), Adelaide Heilbron(screenplay)
Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 13 January 1941 (USA)
Filming Location: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Storyline:
Spinster septuagenarian Ella Bishop, on the brink of retirement from her fifty-two year career as the freshman English teacher at small town Midwestern University, her alma mater, wants to look toward the future, but can't help reflect upon her past, what brought her to this point. Although she always wanted to be a teacher and was both surprised and ecstatic when her mentor, Midwestern's then President James Corcoran, offered her the English teacher opening upon graduation, she only saw it as one short phase of her life until she got married and had a family, unlike her younger cousin, Amy Saunders, who solely needed romance and love to feel fulfilled. She thinks about the two men with who she was mutually in love and would have married if she could have if it not for one circumstance or another, and the one man whose love for her was and is unrequited, at least in the romantic sense, but who was and has always been there for her. Although never haven given birth to a child of her own, she thinks about the many to who she has acted as a mother or grandmother either in a practical and/or emotional sense, including her many students, some who have gone on to great things, her niece Hope who she practically raised, and her grand-niece, Gretchen. She also thinks about having stayed at Midwestern in her home town, her career which was not always smooth sailing, especially with the changing times.
Reviews:
"Most of Cheers for Miss Bishop is told in flashback as Martha Scott reminisces with old friend William Gargan about her fifty years as a professor of English at Midwestern University. In fact the whole film is held together by Martha Scott's powerful performance in the title role.
Scott tells of her life beginning with her accepting a position at a small college after graduating from same as an English teacher. She's one of those rare people who's life and job become bound as one and finds she has no use for the other aspects of life like home and family. Even Robert Donat's Mr. Chips married Greer Garson albeit ever so briefly.
Not that she didn't have chances to marry, but her career and her students came first.
Martha Scott gets good support from a nice ensemble of players that also include Edmund Gwenn and John Hamilton as her college presidents, Dorothy Peterson as her mother, and Mary Anderson as her great niece.
Particularly impressive to me was Rosemary DeCamp as a young Scandinavian immigrant student who Scott recognizes intuitively as being an incipient genius with a photographic memory. When she's accused of cheating Scott saves her from expulsion by having her recite the Declaration of Independence from memory. It's a very powerful screen debut for Rosemary DeCamp.
Still the film is Martha Scott's show and a good show it is too."
- written by "bkoganbing" on IMDb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Cheers for Miss Bishop
Brazil Dona de Seu Destino
Canada (English title) Cheers for Miss Bishop
Denmark En kvindeskæbne
Italy Tutta una vita
Japan (Japanese title) 美しき生涯
Mexico Dueña de su destino
Netherlands (literal title) Hoera, voor juffrouw Bisschop
Portugal O Que o Tempo Não Levou
Soviet Union (Russian title) За здоровье мисс Бишоп
Spain Dueña de su destino
Sweden Farväl miss Bishop
USA Cheers for Miss Bishop
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