Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop 1941 is a film based on the novel Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett and stars Martha Scott in the title role. The other cast members include William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Marsha Hunt, Don Douglas, and Sidney Blackmer. This film marked the debut of Rosemary DeCamp.

She is engaged to lawyer Delbert Thompson Don Douglas but she learns, to her distress, that Amy is pregnant by him. Delbert and Amy run off together but Amy dies in childbirth, leaving Ella to care for Amys daughter Hope Marsha Hunt. Hope grows up and marries Richard John Archer, and they move away and have a daughter named Gretchen Lois Ranson. Ella also has a fling with another teacher, the unhappily married John Stevens Sidney Blackmer, but she eventually breaks off the relationship later, she is distressed to learn that John has been killed.Through all the years, Ella is supported by her friend Sam Peters William Gargan, a local grocer. Another source of support is Professor Corcoran Edmund Gwenn, the college president who hires her as a teacher and persuades her to stay when she considers leaving. His death is a blow to Ella. As Ella reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be true fulfillment. However, the years have not been without glory and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous nowfamous students from over the years return to a testimonial dinner at the school to honour their beloved Miss Bishop. ........

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