Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) | Maria Scott | Full movie

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writers: Bess Streeter Aldrich (novel "Miss Bishop"), Stephen Vincent Benet (screen adaptation), Adelaide Heilbron (screenplay)
Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn

Trivia
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Quotes
John Stevens: [Reading from J. M. Barrie's book, The Little Minister] The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Ella Bishop: [Interrupting] Would you mind reading that again? Just the last sentence.

John Stevens: The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story... and writes another.

Ella Bishop: I suppose that's true, isn't it? We dream dreams and... Do go on.

Taglines
One of the year's most inspired pictures...a warm, glowing story of real American people...their gayety and laughter, the dreams and desires, their problems, their loves...all the poignant romance and exciting drama of living...manifold elements that make up the very fabric of American life...brilliantly combined in a great film.