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Cheers for Miss Bishop

(1941)

February 21, 1941 1h 35m
58%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Tay Garnett

Director

Top Billed Cast

MS

Martha Scott

Ella Bishop

WG

William Gargan

Sam Peters

EG

Edmund Gwenn

President Corcoran

SH

Sterling Holloway

Chris Jensen

DP

Dorothy Peterson

Mrs. Bishop

SB

Sidney Blackmer

John Stevens

MA

Mary Anderson

Amy Saunders

DD

Donald Douglas

Delbert Thompson

MH

Marsha Hunt

Hope Thompson

JA

John Archer

Richard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)