Martha Scott stars as Ella Bishop, a small-town Midwestern
schoolteacher looking back over fifty years at Midwestern College —
the men she loved and lost, the students whose lives she shaped, and
the niece (Marsha Hunt) she raised. William Gargan plays the suitor
who never quite catches her. Directed by Tay Garnett and adapted
from Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel Miss Bishop, it is a sentimental
women's picture in the Goodbye, Mr. Chips mold, carried by Scott's
performance, which earned her comparisons to the best character
actresses of the day and an Oscar nomination for its score by Edward
Ward. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal of
copyright.
Drama · Romance
