Martha Scott plays a university professor who is retiring after decades of teaching in “Cheers for Miss Bishop.” Most of her life is recalled in flashbacks, taking place over many years, with many of her students from the past attending a testimonial dinner. Scott delivered a sterling performance under the capable direction of Tay Garnett (“China Seas” 1935) from a lucid screenplay by Sheridan Gidney, Adelaide Heilbron, and Stephen Vincent Benet. It was based on the 1933 novel “Miss Bishop” by Bess Streeter Aldrich.
The supporting cast includes Edmund Gwenn, William Gargan, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Anderson, Donald Douglas, Marsha Hunt, and Rosemary DeCamp in her motion picture debut. Her career in movies would last until 1983. Though slow at the start, “Cheers for Miss Bishop” picks up steam as the film progresses to make for an interesting, sentimental, and watchable motion picture from Richard A. Rowland Productions and United Artists.
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
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My Review
Martha Scott plays a university professor who is retiring after decades of teaching in “Cheers for Miss Bishop.” Most of her life is recalled in flashbacks, taking place over many years, with many of her students from the past attending a testimonial dinner. Scott delivered a sterling performance under the capable direction of Tay Garnett (“China Seas” 1935) from a lucid screenplay by Sheridan Gidney, Adelaide Heilbron, and Stephen Vincent Benet. It was based on the 1933 novel “Miss Bishop” by Bess Streeter Aldrich.
The supporting cast includes Edmund Gwenn, William Gargan, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Anderson, Donald Douglas, Marsha Hunt, and Rosemary DeCamp in her motion picture debut. Her career in movies would last until 1983. Though slow at the start, “Cheers for Miss Bishop” picks up steam as the film progresses to make for an interesting, sentimental, and watchable motion picture from Richard A. Rowland Productions and United Artists.