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To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on the true story of Braithwaite accepting a teaching post in a secondary school. The novel, in 22 chapters, gives insight into the politics of race and class in postwar London.
In 2007 he said on a BBC Radio 4 programme, To Sir, with Love Revisited, written and presented by Burt Caesar: "I detest the movie from the bottom of my heart." [16] [17] While he was writing his book about the school Braithwaite turned to social work. It became his job to find foster homes for non-white children for the London County Council.
To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in a secondary school in the East End of London. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts , Judy Geeson , Suzy Kendall , Patricia Routledge and singer Lulu making her film debut. [ 4 ]
Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier, where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people. [34] The closing song of the 1969 crime caper, The Italian Job, ("Getta Bloomin' Move On" a.k.a. "The Self Preservation ...
To Sir, with Love, a 1967 British drama film starring Sidney Poitier, adapted from the 1959 novel; To Sir with Love, the theme song to the 1967 film, originally performed by Lulu; To Sir, with Love, the soundtrack album to the 1967 film, featuring Lulu and The Mindbenders; To Sir, with Love II, a 1996 American television drama film, a sequel to ...
DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE: in which The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, and ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS by EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. To which are prefixed, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, and AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, A.M. In TWO Volumes VOL. I
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The official spelling of the movie, according to IMDB, is: To Sir, with Love, the way we have it (despite the way it's spelt on the DVD cover) The spelling of the novel is: To Sir, With Love The spelling of the song is: To Sir With Love (no comma) Most ridiculous inconsistency I've ever seen, but that seems to be the way it is.