Good Morning, Miss Dove

Good Morning, Miss Dove is a 1955 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope film which tells the sentimental story of a beloved schoolteacher who reflects back on her life and former students when she is hospitalized. It stars Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, Robert Douglas, Peggy Knudsen, Marshall Thompson, Chuck Connors, and Mary Wickes.

Miss Dove Jennifer Jones, commonly referred to as the terrible Miss Dove, is a prim and proper geography teacher who governs her classroom with strict disciplinary rules, dependable habits and a commonsense approach to lifes everyday challenges. To the citizens and former pupils of Liberty Hill, she is regarded as the epitome of gentility and wisdom.On a typical day, her habits never varying, Miss Dove oils her creaking gate and walks to the schoolhouse, briefly stopping to address her neighbors along the way. As the school bell rings, she stands at the entrance to her classroom as each of her pupils line up and greet her with Good morning, Miss Dove. During this mornings session, she reprimands David Burnham Biff Elliot for swearing and tells him that he must remain after class and write Nothing is achieved by swearing twenty times in his notebook. During Davids internment, Miss Dove suddenly feels a sharp pain at the base of her spine and tells David to run and tell his father that she is ill. ........

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