Cheers for Miss Bishop
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| Directed by | Tay Garnett |
| Produced by | Richard A. Rowland |
| Written by | Bess Streeter Aldrich (novel) |
| Screenplay by |
Stephen Vincent Benet Sheridan Gibney Adelaide Heilbron |
| Based on | Miss Bishop (novel) |
| Starring |
Martha Scott William Gargan Edmund Gwenn Marsha Hunt Rosemary DeCamp |
| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | William F. Claxton |
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Richard A. Rowland Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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82 minutes 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cheers for Miss Bishop is a 1941 drama film based on the novel Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett and stars Martha Scott in the title role. The other cast members include William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Marsha Hunt, Don Douglas, and Sidney Blackmer. This film marked the debut of Rosemary DeCamp.
Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) is a teacher at Midwestern University. The story is told in flashback and takes place over many years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, showing her from her freshman year to her retirement as an old woman. At the beginning, she lives with her mother and her vixenish cousin Amy (Mary Anderson); she remembers when her father had a farm near the town. Ella is an inhibited girl whose frustration grows as she approaches womanhood. She dreams of becoming a teacher. When she graduates from Midwestern University, she is thrilled when its president, Professor Corcoran (Edmund Gwenn), offers her a position on the faculty.
Ella becomes engaged to lawyer Delbert Thompson (Don Douglas), but Delbert is led astray by Amy and eventually has to marry her, despite loving Ella. The couple move away. After Amy becomes pregnant, Delbert abandons her. Amy dies in childbirth, leaving Ella to care for Amy's daughter Hope (Marsha Hunt). Hope grows up and marries Richard (John Archer), and they move away and have a daughter named Gretchen (Lois Ranson). Ella also has a fling with another teacher, the unhappily married John Stevens (Sidney Blackmer), but John's wife cannot give him a divorce for religious reasons, forcing Ella to break off the relationship. Later, she is distressed to learn that John has been killed.
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