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.
Directed by Tay Garnett
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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

Knox Manning
Anton Radcheck
Sue Moore
Stena
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