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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