• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published...
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  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own...
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  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie can refer to: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), a 1961 novel by Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a 1966...
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  • Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of...
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  • Jay Presson Allen (category Writers Guild of America Award winners)
    alleviate a yearlong bout of writer's block, Allen produced a draft of the play in three days. While The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was still an unproduced...
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  • Cracks (film) (category Films based on American novels)
    Metacritic, the film has a score of 54 out of 100 based on 12 critic reviews. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel) Notes on a Scandal "Cracks (2009)"...
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    Cooper. The titular character of the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by the Scottish author Muriel Spark claims to be descended from Deacon Brodie. His...
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  • Muriel Spark (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    in a novel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) was even more successful. Spark displayed originality of subject and tone, making extensive use of flashforwards...
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    of the Glen Jean Brodie, in the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and film adaptation J. H. Brodie, in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street...
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  • Rona Morison (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    Teenage Girl, at the Southwark Playhouse. Morison performed another lead role in the 2018 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar Warehouse...
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  • Mary McGregor in drama The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and the voice role of "Pud'n" on the animated The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (US, 2001–2007)...
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  • and served as an inspiration for Miss Jean Brodie, the leading character in the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Kay, an only child...
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  • Celia Johnson (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was created a Commander of the Order of...
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  • Jean Brodie, in the novella and film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean DeWolff, in the comic Spider-Man Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, narrator of the novel...
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  • argues that The Ballad of Peckham Rye, which appeared in paperback in 1963, was overshadowed by The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark's next novel, widely...
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    Olivia Hussey (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
    Fiorita and Cup Fever. Hussey appeared in a West End production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playing Jenny opposite Vanessa Redgrave. Italian film director...
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  • return to the buoyant and witty precisions of Memento Mori and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Prime Muriel Spark...mad - and hilarious." - The Boston Globe...
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  • the passion and drama of adolescence...peculiarly satisfying. Elle also compares it to other works, "while evocative of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie...
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  • U.S the film was renamed Identikit. Spark described it as one of her favourite novels. The Driver's Seat was, on 26 March 2010, one of six novels to be...
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  • Vickery Turner (category Actors from the Borough of Spelthorne)
    in the first production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie opposite Vanessa Redgrave. For that role Turner received the Clarence Derwent Award for the best...
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    Maggie Smith (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    and Day (1979). Smith won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978)...
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  • A Narrow Door (category British crime novels)
    certain experiences." Straitley's Brodie Boys are a reference to Muriel Spark's novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In 2022 Harris turned down a US book...
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    Linda Emond (category University of Washington School of Drama alumni)
    Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Her first professional stage performance, for which she earned her Equity card, was in On the Verge at The Empty...
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  • is represented in the novel by a series of insidious phone calls made to the elderly Dame Lettie Colston and her acquaintances. The recipients reflect...
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  • Gordon Jackson (actor) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    wife had important roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. That year, he played Horatio in Tony Richardson's production of Hamlet and he won a Clarence...
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  • Creatures Great and Small, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Forsyte Saga. Anthony Steven began his career as a reporter on the Oxford Mail. Later, he...
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    Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997), and Meg Cabot's Avalon High (2005). In some novels, the poem...
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  • A Far Cry from Kensington (category 1988 British novels)
    despicable character. This novel is her revenge on him." The story also features the pseudoscience of radionics. Writing in The New York Times, Robert Plunkett...
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  • The Bachelors is a novel written in 1960 by the Scottish author Muriel Spark, referred to by The New York Times as "the most gifted and innovative British...
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  • is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990. John Mortimer, writing in The Sunday Times, regarded it as one of the best novels of that...
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