Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
90 Min
Synopsis
This nostalgic drama follows the life and career of Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott), a beloved Midwestern University teacher whose former students gather to pay tribute to her at a retirement ceremony honoring her 50 years of dedicated service. Based on a novel by Bess Streeter Aldrich and told via flashback, the film also stars Sterling Holloway, Rosemary DeCamp (in her big-screen bow) and Edmund Gwenn as the college president.
Director
Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett (born William Taylor Garnett 13 June 1894 – 3 October 1977) was an American film director and writer.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are One Way Passage (1932), China Seas (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), Seven Sinners (1940), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), The Cross of Lorraine (1943), and Bataan (1943). He is best known as the director of the 1946 thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice with John Garfield and Lana Turner. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming was also well-received. Garnett also worked in radio as a writer, director and narrator. He created a show titled “Three Sheets to the Wind”(1942) which starred John Wayne as Dan O’Brien, an American private eye posing as a drunk on a luxury liner… read more
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