Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

5.8/10 • 95 min • Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Martha Scott

William Gargan

Edmund Gwenn

President Corcoran

Sterling Holloway

Dorothy Peterson

Sidney Blackmer

Mary Anderson

Donald Douglas

Delbert Thompson

Marsha Hunt

John Archer

Richard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)

Lois Ranson

Rosemary DeCamp

Knox Manning

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