Overview

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

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Cast

Martha Scott

Ella Bishop

William Gargan

Sam Peters

Edmund Gwenn

President Corcoran

Sterling Holloway

Chris Jensen

Dorothy Peterson

Mrs. Bishop

Sidney Blackmer

John Stevens

Mary Anderson

Amy Saunders

Donald Douglas

Delbert Thompson

Marsha Hunt

Hope Thompson

John Archer

Richard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)

Lois Ranson

Gretchen Clark

Rosemary DeCamp

Minna Fields