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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie premiered at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and was released in UK cinemas on 24 February 1969 and in the US on 2 March 1969. Although the film received positive reviews with Smith's performance being acclaimed, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $3 million on a $2.76 ...
The song was the theme to the 1969 film adaptation of Dame Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which starred noted British actress Maggie Smith.Smith won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the lead character in the film, Jean Brodie.
Pamela Franklin (born 3 February 1950) is a British former actress. She is best known for her role as Sandy in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), for which she won a NBR Award and received a BAFTA Award nomination.
“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight-backed, nose ...
Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of the same name—both by Jay Presson Allen—which were based on the novel. Miss Brodie is a highly idealistic character with an exaggerated romantic view of the world; many of her catchphrases ...
Smith, who appeared in over 50 films, won two Academy Awards for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978). She also nabbed four Golden Globe Awards and had four additional ...
'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' 1969. Alamy. Maggie Smith. The following year she appeared alongside her then-husband Robert Stephens in a role that would win her her first Oscar.
Redgrave also turned down the film role. In 1969, the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was released. It starred Maggie Smith, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 1978, Scottish Television produced the seven part serial The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It starred Geraldine McEwan. The author preferred the ...