A splash of exoticism at the conservative Marcia Blaine's School for Young Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, Miss Jean Brodie (Smith) is very good at making her students -- the "Brodie girls" -- hers for ...

Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play. A clumsy Broadway ...

Was it Calvinism?” “Oh, no,” said Sandy. “But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.” She clutched the bars of the grille as if she wanted to escape from the dim parlor beyond ...

But my own memories of Smith go back to the 1960s and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which shot in Edinburgh and which won Smith the first of her two Oscars. She played another teacher ...

Smith’s performance in Othello earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith’s portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie in The ...

I’m so glad, in the case of Smith, to see so many people singling out her Oscar-winning work in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In the 1969 film, she plays a teacher at a Scottish all-girls’ school in ...

She stands at the center of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which began life as a 1961 Muriel Spark novel before Jay Presson Allen adapted it for the stage, then the screen, Maggie Smith ...

Zoe Kazan is an acclaimed playwright ... turning up for her first Broadway callback — an adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Cynthia Nixon — having learned the whole play.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has had 2 productions including Broadway which opened in 1968 and London which opened in 2018. Most Popular What Is the Most Romantic Broadway Song? 1400+ Stars Decide!

HOLLYWOOD — When Zoe Kazan was preparing to play ... she got a starring role in the 2006 off-Broadway revival of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” with Cynthia Nixon. She made her Broadway ...

She was born in Edinburgh where she set her most famous novel, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” The story takes place in the 1930s, but the book was published in 1961, adapted to the stage in ...