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23/11/1955 Comedy, Drama 1h 47m
70
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A picture of Everybody for Everybody!

Overview

Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.

  1. Henry Koster

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jennifer Jones

    Miss Dove

  2. Robert Stack

    Dr. Tommy Baker

  3. Kipp Hamilton

    Virginia Baker

  4. Robert Douglas

    John Porter

  5. Peggy Knudsen

    Billie Jean Green

  6. Marshall Thompson

    Wilfred Banning Pendleton III

  7. Chuck Connors

    Bill Holloway

  8. Biff Elliot

    Reverend Alex Burnham

  9. Jerry Paris

    Maurice Levine

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-11-14
Jennifer Jones is quite good here as the pernickety "Miss Dove". She's a no-nonsense school mistress who finds herself a bit poorly one day. Luckily the pupil she is disciplining happens to be the son of her doctor, so he is sent for and shortly thereafter she is carried, stirrup fashion, from her school to the hospital. Quickly, we all discover that although she gives off the aura of a bit of an austere woman, she is actually highly respected by a community that is appreciative of her style of teaching. To illustrate this, we embark on a series of flashbacks as the great and the good from the...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,470,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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