Cheers for Miss Bishop

  • Comedy
  • Drama
2/21/1941
95
NR

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    In some ways, this reminded me of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in that it quite touchingly illustrates the dedication of a schoolteacher to a profession that frequently saw their own lives being sacrificed. It also features a character who isnt always appreciated by her students or even by some of her professional colleagues as time marches on. Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) has always been keen on education and takes great pride in being a woman of letters. She shines at school and is picked by its principal (Edmund Gwenn) to teach the younger kids English - a task that turns out to be quite a bit harder than you might have thought. At this stage in her life, romance is still a distinct possibility but rather cruelly her cousin Amy and another ma...

    July 20, 2025

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