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Bette Davis weaponizes education against poverty and your tear ducts.
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IMDb
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Rotten Tomatoes
77
Audience Score
77
Google
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The Corn Is Green (1945)

coal-dust poetryacademic underdogrestrained longing

Overview

Drama

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

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teacherwalesbased on play or musicalmining town

Standout Aspects

Acting

Davis suppresses 50 emotions behind one raised eyebrow.

Writing

Dialogue that makes Welsh mining towns sound like Shakespeare.

Best for:Solo: Rainy afternoon with tea and tissues.·Date Night: Test if they cry at stiff-upper-lip sacrifice.
Irving Rapper

Director

Irving Rapper

ReleasedMar 29, 1945
Runtime1h 55m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelheavy
Warner Bros. Pictures

Top Cast

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat

John Dall

John Dall

Morgan Evans

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

The Squire

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

Mr. Jones

Rosalind Ivan

Rosalind Ivan

Mrs. Watty

Mildred Dunnock

Mildred Dunnock

Miss Ronberry

Arthur Shields

Arthur Shields

Glyn Thomas

William Roy

William Roy

Idwal Morris

Joan Lorring

Joan Lorring

Bessie Watty

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Trivia

Davis, 36, fought to play 50-year-old Miss Moffat; studio made her compromise at 35. She won.

Cultural

The play's 1938 debut helped establish the 'inspiring teacher' genre that Dead Poets Society would later gentrify.

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The Corn is Green (Original Theatrical Trailer)

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