Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a bit for some reason.
I think her character Prof. McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies drew heavily on her much earlier role as that other Scottish school teacher, Jean Brodie.
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I don't think you can understand the 1960s without seeing her glorious movie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It captures the tension of social norms and rebellion and, if one pays attention, the natural consequences of unbridled enthusiasm.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw
Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a bit for some reason.
I've always thought of her as being well-known, but apparently it was Downton Abbey that really made her properly famous, which she didn't really like: https://x.com/lewispringle/status/1839680373774581849
But the book and movie are set in the 1930s, though I guess 1930s through a 1960s sensibility.
I think her character Prof. McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies drew heavily on her much earlier role as that other Scottish school teacher, Jean Brodie.
Lovely, thank you for sharing!
I think the same of "The Graduate (1967)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKafIqhEvk
Note - this is not a movie she is in.