Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) on Netflix
Approved19411h 35mDramaRomance
Ella Bishop studies at Midwestern University in the 1880s, dreaming of teaching. President Corcoran gives her a faculty post; her cousin Amy, who lives with the family, wants only romance.
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Plot summary
Ella Bishop, a teacher near the end of her career, looks back over the years that brought her to the classroom. In the 1880s she is a student at Midwestern University, an inhibited young woman who lives with her mother and her cousin Amy and dreams of teaching. On graduation Professor Corcoran, the school's president, offers her a place on the faculty, and she accepts it as a stage of a life she expects to include marriage and children. She becomes engaged to the lawyer Delbert Thompson, though her cousin Amy wants only romance. The grocer Sam Peters loves her and stays a steady friend, and Corcoran urges her to remain at the university when she thinks of leaving.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
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- Scholars including David Bordwell note Cheers for Miss Bishop as one of the first films to use autobiographical voiceover within a flashback narrative, as Ella Bishop recalls her life from her 1880s graduation at Midwestern University to her 1930s retirement.
- To show the passing of decades, director Tay Garnett used fading transitions to symbolize the change in time, while makeup director Don L. Cash aged the actors distinctly through the decades.
