“But there was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime ... Joyce Emily’s parents, wealthy as they were, had begged for a trial period to elapse at the new school before investing in yet another ...

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 ...

Rites of Passage The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has been adapted for the stage at London's Donmar Warehouse to mark the centenary of Muriel Sparks' birth There's a new horror film which some ...

By contrast, you can visit and revisit great fiction – Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited comes at once to mind; Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is another – time and again ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two-time Oscar winner, who first won an Academy Award for her unforgettable performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), found a new wave of fame in recent years as the sharp-tongued ...

n The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will be touring in the autumn, to Cardiff, Sheffield, Edinburgh (King's Theatre, Nov 10-14), and Newcastle.

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 ...

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 ...

Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at ...