🎓 Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) 💐📚 Classic Drama 🌅  #fullmovie - video Dailymotion

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📖❤️ Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) is a moving, emotional tribute to the quiet strength and sacrifice of teachers. Based on Bess Streeter Aldrich’s novel Miss Bishop, this sentimental classic tells the life story of a devoted woman whose legacy is written not in fame, but in the hearts of her students.   📽️ Plot Summary:  Miss Bishop, a brilliant but selfless college professor, dedicates her life to her students and community. Through personal heartbreaks, changing times, and quiet perseverance, she becomes a pillar of inspiration, shaping countless lives in a way only true teachers can.   🕰️ Year Released: 1941  🎭 Genre: Drama, Biography  🎬 Directed by: Tay Garnett  🎞️ Starring: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn   🎯 Why Watch It?  ✔️ A touching salute to the often-unsung heroes of education  ✔️ Emotionally rich and beautifully acted by Martha Scott  ✔️ A reflective, character-driven drama with timeless values  ✔️ Perfect for fans of classic women-centered storytelling   🔔 Be sure to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more golden age dramas, heartfelt stories, and vintage classics!   👇 Discover More Classic Women’s Dramas & Forgotten Gems:  📺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnT7hNTlq29mZQJKn7wrNglY  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  🎞️ #CheersForMissBishop #ClassicDrama #MarthaScott #1940sCinema #TeacherTribute #GoldenAgeHollywood #PublicDomainMovie #MissBishop #InspiringFilms  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  📚🌷 A story of sacrifice, love, and lifelong service — Cheers for Miss Bishop is an ode to those who shape generations.  ________________________________________

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00:00:00The End

00:01:30They're all I want to see.

00:01:32Just thought I'd stop by for a second on my way home.

00:01:37By way of an innovation.

00:01:43Tired, Elle?

00:01:48Looking backward.

00:01:50Great waste of time.

00:01:52Have some sherry, Sam.

00:01:56What happened at the trustees' meeting yesterday?

00:02:01It wasn't bad.

00:02:02I had to go over to Free Prairie to see about some land I'm buying.

00:02:06More land?

00:02:08You must own half the state already.

00:02:11Remember the day you drove up in your brand new delivery wagon?

00:02:19Do you realize that's over 50 years ago?

00:02:24Well, 50 years ago, the day Midwestern opened.

00:02:29Good morning, Chris.

00:02:44Miss Bishop.

00:02:46Abe ain't promoted.

00:02:47Chris, I can't stop you.

00:02:48Yeah, yeah, but I'm not just Yeneter no more.

00:02:50Chris, I'm late.

00:02:51I got so excited.

00:02:52I forgot my registration money and had to run all the way home for it.

00:02:56I'm Gartner now.

00:02:57Oh, that's wonderful, Chris.

00:02:59Yeah.

00:03:01I know some of you have walked miles to get here.

00:03:05And that every day for four years, you'll have to walk those miles.

00:03:09Through rain, sleet, and snow.

00:03:12But I know this.

00:03:14The end will pay you for those hardships because the end is wisdom.

00:03:22Wisdom is first cousin to freedom.

00:03:25And freedom is the glory of our nation and our people.

00:03:31Let us pray.

00:03:36Almighty and most merciful God,

00:03:38here, on free land,

00:03:43under free air,

00:03:45we have tried to build a house for wisdom,

00:03:49free to all.

00:03:51Look favorably upon us, O Lord,

00:03:54for today,

00:03:56we light a lamp of learning.

00:03:59May it shine through the years to me.

00:04:04Amen.

00:04:04Wisdom is the first cousin of freedom.

00:04:10And freedom is the glory of our nation and our people.

00:04:15Doesn't that give you a thrill, love?

00:04:17Yes, Ella.

00:04:18Your milk.

00:04:19Nothing since breakfast.

00:04:21Of course, it was the way he said it.

00:04:23So simply.

00:04:24Oh, he has the most wonderful voice,

00:04:26the most wonderful eyes.

00:04:27Is he married?

00:04:30Oh, mother.

00:04:31What are we going to do

00:04:33with this romantic-minded niece of yours?

00:04:37Come in.

00:04:42Good afternoon, Mrs. Bishop.

00:04:44Good afternoon, Mrs. Bishop.

00:04:45Buddy.

00:04:45Hello, buddy.

00:04:50Would you have a cookie?

00:04:51Oh, thank you.

00:04:53Hello, Amy.

00:04:56Hello, buddy.

00:04:58Oh, yes, you're busy, Amy.

00:05:00Oh, I...

00:05:00Yes, buddy.

00:05:01Amy, those peas for supper.

00:05:04What was it, buddy?

00:05:05Not ice cream with the drugstore in your chair.

00:05:08Well, Mrs. Bishop, I thought of anything.

00:05:09I'll finish the peas now.

00:05:11Oh, Ella.

00:05:12You're a great old dog.

00:05:13Easy, Adrian.

00:05:16Come on, buddy.

00:05:17Goodbye, Ella.

00:05:18Goodbye, Aunt Kate.

00:05:19Goodbye, Mrs. Bishop.

00:05:20Goodbye.

00:05:22Love is certainly working wonders

00:05:24with Buddy's deportment.

00:05:25He'll be kissing our hands next.

00:05:27Ella, you really shouldn't have.

00:05:29Amy's so boy-crazy.

00:05:30Oh, no, dear.

00:05:31Just 14.

00:05:32But you never acted that way.

00:05:33Well, that was different.

00:05:35We were still on the farm when I was 14,

00:05:37and I was Pa's right-hand man.

00:05:39Remember how thrilled they used to be

00:05:40when he called me that?

00:05:42He was proud of you.

00:05:43I was so proud of him.

00:05:45Oh, Mother, I've thought about him so many times today.

00:05:48He'd have been so happy.

00:05:49Yes.

00:05:50Your father always said,

00:05:52education pays big dividends.

00:05:53That's true, Ma.

00:05:54With a college diploma,

00:05:56I can teach anywhere.

00:05:57Just think,

00:05:58you and I may go to Kansas City

00:06:00or Chicago,

00:06:02maybe even New York.

00:06:03Here's Sam.

00:06:05Sam!

00:06:06Oh, Sam!

00:06:09Sam!

00:06:09Oh.

00:06:10Oh.

00:06:11Sam!

00:06:13Sam!

00:06:14Oh!

00:06:14Wait till I tell you.

00:06:16You don't have to.

00:06:17Ma Bishop.

00:06:18Yes?

00:06:19The apples didn't get in today.

00:06:20Had them here first thing in the morning.

00:06:22Early, please.

00:06:23Applesauce and pie.

00:06:24First delivery.

00:06:25Cross my heart, Ma Bishop.

00:06:26All right.

00:06:27Sam.

00:06:27Always so reliable.

00:06:29Faithful old dog, Trey.

00:06:31I'm not too pleased

00:06:32with faithful old dog, Trey,

00:06:33at the moment.

00:06:34You didn't come to hear

00:06:35about my first day at college.

00:06:36Just came about some old apples.

00:06:38Uh-uh.

00:06:39New apples.

00:06:40September sweetings.

00:06:42What a nice name.

00:06:45What a nice world, Sam.

00:06:47And you perched right on top of it, huh?

00:06:49The very tip top.

00:06:51Are you sure you don't want to enroll?

00:06:53It isn't too late.

00:06:55Look, Al.

00:06:56See the name on that card?

00:06:59Oh, I know.

00:07:00Something of your very own.

00:07:01Something you started.

00:07:03Not just my own, Al.

00:07:04Good glory, Sam.

00:07:06I know book learning isn't everything,

00:07:07but just wait.

00:07:09I'll wait.

00:07:10And the day you graduate,

00:07:11You'll help me decide

00:07:12which of the millions

00:07:13of teaching offers I'll accept.

00:07:16Like heck I will.

00:07:17For a smart girl,

00:07:18you sure have some

00:07:19mighty pudding-head notions, Al.

00:07:20Imagine figuring

00:07:21your cut out for a teacher.

00:07:23Well, good glory, Sam.

00:07:24You don't think I'm going

00:07:24to spend all my life

00:07:25teaching, do you?

00:07:28That's all right, then.

00:07:29I've got scads of time, Al.

00:07:31But someday, I...

00:07:33Oh, Sam, dear.

00:07:35You mustn't.

00:07:36I mean, don't you see?

00:07:38I...

00:07:38I just know you too well.

00:07:41Well, stop.

00:07:42What?

00:07:43Stop.

00:07:44Stop answering questions

00:07:45until they're asked.

00:07:47Johnny,

00:07:48did you ever notice

00:07:49some girls take an awful lot

00:07:50for granted?

00:07:54Goodbye, Al.

00:07:55Goodbye, Sam.

00:07:58I've got some deliveries to make.

00:08:04Back up, Johnny.

00:08:06Bye.

00:08:07Bye, Sam.

00:08:08I guess there's no finer man

00:08:11in the world than Sam.

00:08:13Good glory, Mother.

00:08:16Now, Ella,

00:08:17I'm not going to be with you forever.

00:08:20I'd like to see you settle down.

00:08:22Oh, you're going to be with me

00:08:23for years and years.

00:08:26And don't worry,

00:08:27I won't be an old man.

00:08:29I'll know when the right man

00:08:30comes along.

00:08:31But now, there's...

00:08:34There's so much to do.

00:08:54Why'd he become a dear

00:08:55when graduating tomorrow, Bishop?

00:08:57She does look pretty.

00:08:58She made that dress herself.

00:08:59There isn't a girl in the class

00:09:00can touch her.

00:09:01Well, that's an understatement, Dad.

00:09:03There's not a girl

00:09:03in the whole world

00:09:04can touch her.

00:09:05There's not a really good-looking man

00:09:07in the whole lot.

00:09:08Amy.

00:09:22Psst.

00:09:24Psst.

00:09:24Mr. Peterson.

00:09:25Please.

00:09:26The flowers.

00:09:39Hey, that was fine.

00:09:52Hey, I'm spinny.

00:09:55Miss Ellen Bishop.

00:09:59Founder of the Minerva Society for Girls.

00:10:02First editor of the Midwestern Clarion

00:10:04and now, Valedictorian.

00:10:10Oh, Sam, my hat does feel a little bit tight.

00:10:14Well, if I remember right,

00:10:18you were going to consult me

00:10:19about which of the many teaching offers...

00:10:21You know, Sam, I haven't had one answer

00:10:22to all those applications I sent out.

00:10:26I expect it's too early to hope to hear.

00:10:29I guess so.

00:10:34Well, I thought if you knew of an opening

00:10:36in any of the schools around here,

00:10:38I mean, just the prairie grade schools, I...

00:10:41Well, I'm only just back from my vacation.

00:10:43Pretty busy with the fall enrollments and...

00:10:46Yes, and I'm trying to arrange

00:10:49for a new member of the faculty.

00:10:52A young woman to teach freshman English.

00:10:55A girl I've watched pretty closely for four years.

00:10:59An intelligent girl, I think.

00:11:02Anyway, she seems to me to have one quality

00:11:05which is mighty important to the teaching profession.

00:11:08She loves and understands folks.

00:11:13Preston Corcoran, do you mean...

00:11:16Well, of course, I know you couldn't mean...

00:11:19But I can't help thinking you might mean...

00:11:21President Corcoran, do you mean I...

00:11:23Oh, dear, dear, dear.

00:11:25There's a heap of repetition in that sentence.

00:11:28For a teacher of freshman English.

00:11:31I take it you're going to accept?

00:11:38Accept?

00:11:40Accept?

00:11:42Well, if I could...

00:11:43If I could only...

00:11:45Well, President Corcoran...

00:11:59I'm going to teach him, Miss Weston!

00:12:01I'm going to teach him, Miss Weston!

00:12:04I'm going to teach him, Miss Weston!

00:12:07Come on, someone!

00:12:08It's impossible!

00:12:09I can't help you believe in my...

00:12:11I don't...

00:12:12But President Corcoran...

00:12:14I want him to give...

00:12:15For all of us, I suppose...

00:12:16I always wanted to...

00:12:17Ah, Miss Rose, so sweet!

00:12:20Good morning, class!

00:12:21I want you, please, to devote the first ten minutes to the writing of a book...

00:12:25of a very brief theme on the subject of my favorite season.

00:12:31I want you, please, to devote the first ten minutes to the writing of a very brief theme...

00:12:33on the subject of my favorite season.

00:12:36Oh, no, I'll...

00:12:38No, I'll have them write on some subject that will teach you...

00:12:40I want you, please, to devote the first ten minutes to the writing of a very brief theme...

00:12:42on the subject of my favorite season.

00:12:55Oh, no, I'll...

00:12:56I'll have them write on some subject that will teach me something about them.

00:13:01I've got to understand them if I'm going to help them learn anything.

00:13:06Oh, good luck!

00:13:07Oh, I'll have them write on some subject that will teach me something about them.

00:13:11Oh, good glory.

00:13:19Good morning. Hasn't the teacher come yet?

00:13:24I'm the teacher.

00:13:26Oh, yes, ma'am.

00:13:38I'm just as frightened as you are.

00:13:42Thank you, Miss Miss.

00:13:47Mr. Anton Radchik.

00:13:53My life's ambition is to be a great astronomer.

00:13:58Of course, since I can remember, the stars to me have been comfort and beauty and like friends.

00:14:07Thank you, Mr. Radchik.

00:14:09Miss Minna Fields.

00:14:17Except to get learning, I ain't got no special life's ambition.

00:14:23Yes.

00:14:28So please come to order.

00:14:34So it just occurred to me, Minna, that with that amazing memory of yours, you might be interested in the librarian's course.

00:14:40It would be an interesting job, wouldn't it, Minna?

00:14:44Oh, yes, Miss Bishop.

00:14:46But, Miss Bishop.

00:14:49Yes, Minna.

00:14:51I, I have got a life's ambition now, Miss Bishop.

00:14:57It, it, it, it's to be just like you.

00:15:05Professor Wick studied astronomy at Yale.

00:15:11Both he and President Corcoran have agreed that if a student at Midwestern wants a course in astronomy, he shall have a course in astronomy.

00:15:24Oh, Miss Bishop.

00:15:26A report to Professor Wicks in the morning.

00:15:28Oh, thank you.

00:15:33I tripped.

00:15:35Ha, ha, ha.

00:15:42Hey, to Midwestern, oh.

00:15:46Oh, oh, oh.

00:15:51Oh, oh.

00:15:55Oh, oh, oh.

00:15:57Oh, it's you, Sam.

00:16:05Only Sam, huh?

00:16:08And what rugged masculine hearts are you tearing to bits tonight, Annie?

00:16:12Larry Winslow's.

00:16:13And what makes you think it's more than one?

00:16:16Well, it usually is.

00:16:18Well, tonight it just so happened that Larry has a ticket

00:16:21and Buddy has a sleigh.

00:16:24There they are now.

00:16:27Larry, Buddy, you're...

00:16:30Coming.

00:16:36Oh, goodbye, Sam.

00:16:38Oh, and Sam, I almost forgot.

00:16:40I can't go with you tonight.

00:16:41She's got a sore throat.

00:16:45I beg your pardon,

00:16:47but I shall have to remind her to whom the sleigh belongs, old man.

00:16:50Oh, Buddy.

00:16:57Bob Bishop.

00:17:00Yes?

00:17:01Dr. Samuel Peters coming up to see the patient.

00:17:04Come up, Sam.

00:17:05Please get out the goose grease, the turpentine, and plenty of red flannel.

00:17:09You smell like a paint shop.

00:17:11But you'll be well in the morning.

00:17:14The magic touch of old Doc Peters.

00:17:16So...

00:17:17This pen, what...

00:17:21Oh, oh, well, Mother, I thought while I was correcting things,

00:17:25I'd just make some maple snow candy, that's all.

00:17:28Professor Bishop, my foot.

00:17:31Good night, little girl.

00:17:32Good night, Sam.

00:17:35Oh, well, thank you, and mind you applaud loudly now.

00:17:38Kind of got my mind set to hiss if they sing Believe Me in Parts again.

00:17:42Oh, Sam.

00:17:43Oh, believe me if all those endearing young charms

00:17:53For the heart that is truly loved never forgets.

00:18:01Goodbye, dear.

00:18:04Good night, Al.

00:18:05Good night, Sam.

00:18:35Good night, Sam.

00:19:05Come on.

00:19:35Yoo-hoo.

00:19:37Yoo-hoo.

00:19:38Yoo-hoo, me?

00:19:39Yoo-hoo anybody.

00:19:40I'm locked out here on the roof and there's nowhere in the house to let me in.

00:19:44Coming.

00:19:45Oh, there's a ladder right over there by the well.

00:19:52Oh.

00:19:53Here?

00:19:54Yes, right.

00:19:55That's right.

00:19:56I've got it.

00:20:00So silly, I put my candy out here to cool and it slipped away from me, so I got out after

00:20:10it and the window came down and locked, so here I am.

00:20:16Shall I come up a la Fire Brigade?

00:20:18Oh, no, thank you.

00:20:19I'll come down a la Rescued Maiden.

00:20:22Are you sure you can make it?

00:20:24Oh, positive.

00:20:26Oh, that is, if you don't mind.

00:20:32Oh, no, of course not.

00:20:33I'll not only look the other way, I'll close my eyes.

00:20:37Now you can descend with a free mind.

00:20:39And while you're descending, I shall make all sorts of encouraging sounds, such as steady

00:20:43there and, uh, et cetera.

00:20:47Oh.

00:20:48Oh.

00:20:49What, can I look?

00:20:50I lost my slipper.

00:20:52Where?

00:20:53Oh, I got it.

00:20:54There it is.

00:20:56No, you don't.

00:20:57Don't bust.

00:20:58Don't ruin the most time-honored romantic scene in all the world of fairy tales.

00:21:02Extend your tiny foot, Cinderella.

00:21:05Well, funnily enough, my name is Ella.

00:21:11I'm Ella Bishop.

00:21:12Oh?

00:21:13And I'm the prince in the slipper fits.

00:21:15So now it only remains for me to carry you into the palace.

00:21:17Well, no, please.

00:21:18Don't be absurd.

00:21:19Oh, don't you be absurd.

00:21:20Oh, well, the candy.

00:21:21The candy.

00:21:22You can't go plowing through snow with glass slippers.

00:21:24You catch your death in pneumonia.

00:21:26Then you couldn't live happily ever after.

00:21:28And you do want to live happily ever after, don't you?

00:21:30I want to be put down here, please.

00:21:32Oh, no, no, no.

00:21:33Not on a snow-covered porch.

00:21:34That's bad.

00:21:35No.

00:21:36No.

00:21:37Do you know there's an old legend about this?

00:21:39Well, really?

00:21:40Well, let me see.

00:21:55Where were we?

00:21:56Oh, yes.

00:21:57Here we are.

00:21:58Well, put me down this minute.

00:22:00Right in front of the fire.

00:22:01You know, when I save lives, I save them thoroughly.

00:22:03Thank you very much, Mr. Delbert Thompson.

00:22:06Oh, you're not Cinderella at all.

00:22:09You're a witch with a gift of second sight.

00:22:11No, I'm just a school teacher of average intelligence who lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody's business.

00:22:19Oh, we all know, for instance, that you are a brilliant young lawyer, that you're coming to live with Judge Peters, that you're to be his junior partner, and underneath your picture in your class book it said, mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

00:22:36Well, then, shouldn't you, in kindness, ask the junior partner to sit down?

00:22:40Oh, I'm sorry.

00:22:41I can't.

00:22:42My mother's at a concert.

00:22:43Oh, we must observe conventions at all costs, huh?

00:22:45At all costs.

00:22:46Well, I'm glad to have been of service, Miss Bishop.

00:22:49Thank you very much, Mr. Thompson.

00:22:51I'll pay my respects to your mother real soon.

00:22:53She'll be delighted.

00:22:56Oh, you've got one of those new contraptions.

00:23:00I'm crazy about them.

00:23:01Oh, aren't they marvelous?

00:23:03My pupils gave it to me for Christmas.

00:23:05Doesn't really work, does it?

00:23:06Of course it does.

00:23:07Listen.

00:23:11See?

00:23:13It's amazing.

00:23:14You know, to listen properly, one might sit down over...

00:23:17Oh, no, I'm sorry.

00:23:18No.

00:23:20Well, I tried.

00:23:21No harm done, huh?

00:23:24No harm.

00:23:28Good night.

00:23:30Good night.

00:23:32I'll call on your mother soon.

00:23:38Oh, in the meantime, Princess, your ruby necklace is most becoming.

00:23:47Horrible.

00:23:50Horrible.

00:23:56Mad.

00:23:58Bad.

00:24:00Dangerous.

00:24:04No.

00:24:05That's all.

00:24:06You know, the little out of George, Sam.

00:24:14Del Thompson rushing out, you mean?

00:24:16No, Amy, honey.

00:24:17Two and three, four and five.

00:24:25Your nose is a little out of George, Sam.

00:24:27Del Thompson rushing out, you mean?

00:24:30No, Amy, honey.

00:24:31Well, he's awfully good-looking, Sam.

00:24:35Judging from the way he's swarming around Ella,

00:24:38sure must be crazy about her.

00:24:40Who isn't?

00:24:41You've got to let me take you home, Ella.

00:24:43I know the prince should take the princess home.

00:24:46Well, this isn't fairytales, Ella. It's real.

00:24:50Salute your partner.

00:24:53Will you?

00:24:54How can I? I came with Sam.

00:24:57Back and swing your partners to the right.

00:25:05Having a nice time, Elle?

00:25:07Wonderful, Sam.

00:25:10Tell him.

00:25:12Tell him what?

00:25:16You look mighty pretty, Elle.

00:25:21Tell him I'm in love with you.

00:25:22Head over heels in love with you.

00:25:25Probably the wrong floor.

00:25:33Do you, Ella, Ella Bishop, take this man for your lawful wedded husband?

00:25:38Of course I do, you fool.

00:25:42And do you, Delbert Thompson, take this woman for your lawful wedded wife?

00:25:47I do.

00:25:48I now pronounce you...

00:25:51...man and wife.

00:25:55Now may I kiss the bride?

00:25:58Please do.

00:25:59Well, Ella, it's like a dream.

00:26:11The end of all dreams.

00:26:15Little house.

00:26:17Red fire lights.

00:26:21Men you love.

00:26:22Children.

00:26:24Children.

00:26:29Well, Auntie, isn't it beautiful?

00:26:30Yes, dear, but be careful or will you handle it?

00:26:32I'll take it upstairs.

00:26:33Belle's coming for supper, and the bridegroom mustn't see any of the outfit before the wedding day.

00:26:38Okay.

00:26:43Come on.

00:26:45Come on.

00:26:46Come on.

00:26:47Come on.

00:26:48Come on.

00:26:49Come on.

00:26:50Come on.

00:26:51Come on.

00:26:52Come on.

00:26:53Come on.

00:27:00The most beautiful bride in the world.

00:27:03Bill.

00:27:06Amy, we're crazy.

00:27:08I mean, what a crazy mistake.

00:27:10Yes.

00:27:12Yes, of course.

00:27:14Oh, Amy, thank you, dear.

00:27:15Put it up in the spare room with the dress.

00:27:18Oh, Dale, you shouldn't have seen the veil.

00:27:20Anyway, I hope it isn't bad luck.

00:27:24How could it be bad luck?

00:27:26Oh, Dale, I didn't mean it that seriously.

00:27:29You know you aren't supposed to see the wedding finery before the wedding day.

00:27:33Ella, why can't this be the wedding day?

00:27:35Darling.

00:27:36We can keep it a secret until college is over if we have to, but...

00:27:38What?

00:27:39Oh, sweet.

00:27:40I have to go to Central Hall tonight, a special meeting.

00:27:42We're going to question a pupil, a girl who's been accused of cheating in an examination.

00:27:46Yes, but why...

00:27:47I know she didn't cheat.

00:27:49And I'm the only one who can help her.

00:27:59Oh, Ella!

00:28:01Yes?

00:28:02I'm going to have a game of cribbage with Judge Peters.

00:28:05Could you, too, drop me?

00:28:06Of course.

00:28:08What a moon.

00:28:10I thought you were going on the river with Larry Winslow.

00:28:13No, I'm tired of wasting my time on those children.

00:28:18Get out, boy.

00:28:19Come on.

00:28:26Give my love to the Peters, Amy.

00:28:28All right.

00:28:30Thank you, Dale.

00:28:31Good night, Amy.

00:28:47President Corcoran.

00:28:48Come in, Miss Bishop.

00:28:51I'm sorry to be late.

00:28:52Not at all.

00:28:53And so much as I regret the necessity, I feel that on evidence submitted, Miss Fields should be expelled.

00:28:59Miss Fields' paper contains whole pages from the textbook reproduced word for word.

00:29:07Minna, did you have a textbook in the examination room?

00:29:11Oh, no, Miss Bishop.

00:29:12I learned by heart.

00:29:14Oh, really?

00:29:15And are we asked to believe that she committed an entire textbook to memory?

00:29:18Please, Professor Lancaster.

00:29:21Why don't you ask her to repeat what she wrote?

00:29:23That would hardly be proof, Miss Bishop.

00:29:25She's had a week since the examiner.

00:29:26Yes, an entire week.

00:29:28Quite so.

00:29:29Professor Lancaster, what assignment did you give your history class for tomorrow?

00:29:37I asked them to read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

00:29:42And memorize them?

00:29:43Certainly not.

00:29:45Minna, have you read them?

00:29:47Oh, yes, Miss Bishop.

00:29:48I have read them and read them for at least an hour.

00:29:51Until now, do you remember the Declaration?

00:29:56I think so, Miss Bishop.

00:30:02President Corcoran.

00:30:04Miss Fields, do you mean you could actually recite the Declaration of Independence after having read it for only one hour?

00:30:13Well, I could tie, President Corcoran.

00:30:15Very well, child.

00:30:20Go ahead.

00:30:30Then, in the course of human events, it becomes...

00:30:34necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another,

00:30:53and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station

00:31:01to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.

00:31:07A decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

00:31:18We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

00:31:26that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,

00:31:33that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:31:43Yes.

00:31:46We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

00:31:56I might. It's amazing.

00:31:58Well, I admit the pupil's possession of unusual mnemonic powers.

00:32:02Under the circumstances, I withdraw my charge.

00:32:05You want that I should recite the Constitution, too?

00:32:08Oh, no, no, no, absolutely not, my friend.

00:32:13Del!

00:32:17Del!

00:32:19Amy!

00:32:21I saw you coming, so I waited.

00:32:24Oh, it's too beautiful a night for cribbage.

00:32:28Isn't it a beautiful night, Del?

00:32:31Oh, yes it is. A beautiful night.

00:32:34Oh, it would be heavenly down by the river.

00:32:37Could we drive down there, or...?

00:32:40Or what?

00:32:41Oh, you're afraid.

00:32:45Mr. Berkeley, the definition of a transitive verb, please.

00:32:48Uh, a transitive verb is a verb that...

00:32:50Uh, come in.

00:32:52Good afternoon, Miss Bishop.

00:32:53For me.

00:32:54Thank you, Chris.

00:32:56Excuse me, please.

00:32:57Uh, thank you, Chris.

00:32:58Excuse me, please.

00:32:59Uh, thank you.

00:33:01Uh, thank you, Chris.

00:33:03Excuse me, please.

00:33:05Uh, thank you.

00:33:07Uh, a transitive verb is a verb that...

00:33:09Uh, a transitive verb is a verb that...

00:33:10Uh, come in.

00:33:12Uh, come in.

00:33:14Good afternoon, Miss Bishop.

00:33:15Uh...

00:33:16Uh...

00:33:18Uh...

00:33:20Excuse me, please.

00:33:22Uh...

00:33:23Uh...

00:33:25Uh...

00:33:27Uh...

00:33:28Uh...

00:33:29Uh...

00:33:30Uh...

00:33:31Uh...

00:33:33Uh...

00:33:34I'm sorry, Mr. Berkeley.

00:33:35I'm sorry, Mr. Berkley, I had asked you for the definition of a transitive verb.

00:33:43A transitive verb is a verb that takes an object.

00:33:48Can you give me an example?

00:33:52To strike.

00:33:54Name the principal parts, please.

00:33:57Strike, struck, stricken, I mean struck.

00:34:04That will do, Mr. Berkley.

00:34:12Class dismissed.

00:34:34Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:38I'm such a silly goose.

00:34:40Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:44I'm such a silly goose.

00:34:46Something terrible you said.

00:34:48Tell me, tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:50Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:51Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:56Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:57Tell me nothing's happened.

00:34:59I'm such a silly goose.

00:35:01Something terrible you said.

00:35:04Tell me until tell me nothing's happened.

00:35:06Tell me nothing's happened.

00:35:07It is terrible, Ella.

00:35:09It's about...

00:35:13Ella, I'd give my right arm to spare you this.

00:35:19You must believe that.

00:35:21Just what is it you want me to believe?

00:35:24Are you trying to make it difficult, Ella?

00:35:27I'm sure Amy will supply all the lovely details.

00:35:42Well, it was your fault anyway.

00:35:44If you hadn't left him for a stupid board meme,

00:35:46it's not like I've taken anything you really care to love about.

00:35:51Ella, oh, I know what you're thinking, but it isn't so.

00:35:54I didn't plan anything.

00:35:55It just happened.

00:35:56Amy, don't you?

00:35:57Ella, you've got your school.

00:35:59Criminal, you need to be that way about it.

00:36:02I haven't...

00:36:03I mean, I didn't mean to do anything.

00:36:05Besides, it doesn't give you any license to treat me like dirt.

00:36:08If that's what you're doing, you're treating me like dirt.

00:36:11You will listen to me.

00:36:12It was an accident, I tell you.

00:36:14You're pretty smart, aren't you?

00:36:16Pretty smart and pretty smug too.

00:36:18Well, you left him alone and there was a moon by the river.

00:36:20That was it, there was a moon.

00:36:22So now he's mine.

00:36:23Do you understand?

00:36:24You can't marry him, he's mine!

00:36:27Oh, Ella!

00:36:36Ella.

00:36:41Ella, what are you doing?

00:36:43Ella!

00:36:44Ella, let me in!

00:36:46Let me in, Ella!

00:36:47I'm your mother!

00:36:48Don't ruin the most time-honored thing I've ever seen in all the world of fairy tales.

00:36:51You're Cinderella.

00:36:52I'm the prince.

00:36:53The slipper fits.

00:36:54What a beautiful moon.

00:36:55So you'd rather save her than me.

00:36:56What a beautiful moon.

00:36:57Drive with me to Maple City tonight, we're married.

00:36:58It's all your fault, anyway.

00:36:59That's it.

00:37:00Tonight we can be married.

00:37:01Why not?

00:37:02Tell me I'm in love will you.

00:37:04Head over heels in love with you.

00:37:05You got married?

00:37:06Tonight we'll be married.

00:37:07You got married!

00:37:08Tonight x3

00:37:09Tonight x9

00:37:10Tonight x9

00:37:11Tonight x9

00:37:12He was in love with you.

00:37:14You got married?

00:37:15Tonight.

00:37:16Tonight.

00:37:17Tonight.

00:37:18Tonight.

00:37:19Tonight.

00:37:20Tonight.

00:37:21Tonight.

00:37:42Now, Del, do you take little Amy here for your lawful wedded wife?

00:37:52I do.

00:37:56Stan?

00:37:57Sam?

00:37:58You heard that.

00:37:59You're witnesses.

00:38:00Well, guess that makes you man and wife.

00:38:03Oh, Del.

00:38:05What do I owe you?

00:38:07Oh, uh, would 50 cents be too much?

00:38:10It's awfully early in the morning.

00:38:12Aren't you going to get the bride, Sam?

00:38:14You have to get a move on if you're going to catch the express.

00:38:16See here, Sam.

00:38:17I'll let you miss the milk train so you could get married.

00:38:19I don't like your attitude.

00:38:20No.

00:38:21You make me feel like a little, little, little.

00:38:23I don't give two hoots how you feel, Amy.

00:38:25Either one of you.

00:38:26I'm just making dead certain you don't humiliate Al.

00:38:29Any more than what you've already done.

00:38:35Busy, Miss Bishop?

00:38:36Oh, President Corcoran.

00:38:38I just received your letter.

00:38:39Ella.

00:38:40I thought it easier to write it.

00:38:42You see, Mother and I are going to New York, President Corcoran.

00:38:45It's an assistant librarian's position.

00:38:48Oh.

00:38:49Oh, I see.

00:38:52Well, of course, it is a hard job, teaching.

00:38:56It never pays much.

00:38:58I know.

00:38:59Lots of the time it's a headache, wondering if it's worthwhile.

00:39:02President Corcoran, you can't feel that way.

00:39:05You're inspired.

00:39:06I mean, you give young people courage and confidence.

00:39:10Ideal.

00:39:11Oh, I am trying.

00:39:12You see, I heard Abe Lincoln talk at Gettysburg.

00:39:15And he talked since.

00:39:18You know, Ella, we've got something here in this country.

00:39:22The idea of people being free.

00:39:24But it's got to be taught and re-taught, Ella, to each new crop of youngsters.

00:39:29The value of freedom.

00:39:34Ella.

00:39:35Your father homesteaded on this prairie.

00:39:38Remember what his first corn looked like?

00:39:41Yes, it was small and green.

00:39:44You couldn't believe it would ever grow.

00:39:46That's it.

00:39:47And human beings are harder to raise than corn.

00:39:50But when they're raised, if they're raised right,

00:39:53they're worth a lot more per bushel.

00:39:56Eh?

00:39:57Oh, you know, Ella, it's a funny thing.

00:40:02A college is made up of bricks and mortar and students and teachers.

00:40:06But it can have all those and not amount to a hill of beans.

00:40:09And then once in a coon's age, someone comes along with that God-given gift for teaching.

00:40:15You've got it, Ella.

00:40:16That magic touch that makes young minds open up and flourish.

00:40:20Well, I certainly didn't intend to deliver a lecture.

00:40:28Of course, Midwestern must accept your resignation.

00:40:32Oh, but are you sure your New York library needs you as much as our seed corn here in Midwestern?

00:40:41President Corcoran, may I have that letter?

00:40:50Oh.

00:40:53Oh, my God.

00:41:10Sam, are you all right? Home for me.

00:41:11Get in, inquickly, Ella.

00:41:13Sam, what is it?

00:41:15It isn't moss.

00:41:16No. Not moss.

00:41:17But I'm afraid it's going to be a shock Amy's back me. She's going to have a baby.

00:41:34Is she alone.

00:41:38Yeah.

00:41:40Oh, I'm frightened.

00:41:44There's nothing to be frightened about.

00:41:47He just left. He just went away and he didn't come back.

00:41:51Well, he didn't know I was going to have a baby.

00:41:53I was going to tell him.

00:41:54You should have told him.

00:41:55No.

00:41:56He didn't love me. He never loved anybody but you.

00:42:00Shh.

00:42:03The doctor says you need rest.

00:42:06You will be kind to me, won't you, Ella?

00:42:09You're all I've got in the world.

00:42:14This is your home, Amy.

00:42:18Go to sleep now.

00:42:31The water won't boil any faster before you're stirring it.

00:42:35Why does it have to, uh, you know, does it always take...

00:42:39For God's sake, Sam.

00:42:40How do you think you was having the baby?

00:42:42Mrs. Bissip.

00:42:43Mrs. Bissip.

00:42:44Hot water, please.

00:42:46Out of the way, Sam.

00:42:48Boil some more water.

00:42:53Water.

00:42:54Sam, quick. A piece of wood for Amy to bite on.

00:43:24She's gone. He couldn't save her.

00:43:37Now, you get some rest, Mrs. Bissip.

00:43:39I'll drop by in the morning with feeding instructions.

00:43:42Meantime, Sten will know what to do.

00:43:44Good night.

00:43:45Good night, doctor.

00:43:46She's a fine, healthy girl.

00:44:03Holding a baby comes natural to you, Miss Ella.

00:44:07I'm going to call her Hope.

00:44:25I'm going to call her Hope.

00:44:30Edith Mignol attorney

00:44:35Whoa, how are you looking?

00:44:38Ready to call her friends?

00:44:40You Ohh Josh George?

00:44:42No, you're ...

00:44:43I'm making up allГ permit,

00:44:47I'm making a half of her that way.

00:44:49That's a great way so that

00:44:51you can pay attention to me.

00:44:54Both others are the only ones starved

00:44:55Well, the love in your eyes I can see, with the heart that is true I'll be waiting for you in the shade of the old apple tree.

00:45:21Very good, yeah, very gritty.

00:45:26Ella, I promise to be here before midnight and it's almost...

00:45:30She'll be here, Ma.

00:45:31The most dashing bow in the world couldn't keep hope away from us on New Year's Eve.

00:45:35So little Hopi's got a bow.

00:45:37Yes, one of our outstanding sophomores, President Cochran, Richard Clarke.

00:45:41Oh, yes, yes, fine boy, Richard.

00:45:44Happy New Year!

00:45:46I was so afraid we'd be later.

00:45:48Oh please, President Cochran.

00:45:50Hello, Richard.

00:45:52Hello, darling.

00:45:53Hello.

00:45:54Worried granny?

00:45:55A little.

00:45:56Hello, Uncle Sam.

00:45:57Hello, Uncle Sam.

00:45:58Oh, she ran me every step of the way.

00:46:00Was it a nice party, darling?

00:46:02Oh, wonderful.

00:46:03And was she the belle of the ball, Richard?

00:46:05Oh, she certainly was, sir.

00:46:07Oh, oh.

00:46:10Person Stenner made us a very special concoction.

00:46:14What's it called, Stenner?

00:46:15Swedish Glug.

00:46:17In the old country, always we drink at New Year's.

00:46:20Then we say Skål.

00:46:22That means health, happiness, and hooray.

00:46:28She's here.

00:46:291900.

00:46:30Happy New Year.

00:46:31Happy New Year.

00:46:32Happy New Year.

00:46:33Skål.

00:46:34May it bring prosperity.

00:46:36And common sense.

00:46:38The world could use a little the pace it's going at.

00:46:41Well, honey.

00:46:45I've waited a century.

00:46:46Seems a lot longer.

00:46:48Sam, dear.

00:46:49Oh, stop.

00:46:53Make a toast, Aunt Ella.

00:46:56Let me think.

00:46:57It wouldn't be anything about Midwestern.

00:46:59Of course, Miss Fisher.

00:47:00Everything about Midwestern.

00:47:03Of course, Richard.

00:47:07President Corcoran.

00:47:09You once gave us a prayer.

00:47:12May the lamp of learning what you lighted then

00:47:15continue to shine brightly through this new century.

00:47:18Thank you, my dear.

00:47:20Good.

00:47:44Anybody hurt?

00:47:45No, but I'm mad as a hatter.

00:47:47You're an entering freshman, aren't you?

00:47:50Yes, ma'am.

00:47:51And don't you know that entering freshmen

00:47:52are not allowed to ride their bicycles on the campus?

00:47:55Yes, ma'am.

00:47:56But I thought...

00:47:57You mean you should have thought.

00:47:58A pretty mark to have against you

00:47:59before you even get into college.

00:48:02That is, if I were going to take the time and trouble

00:48:04to report you.

00:48:05Oh, gee.

00:48:06Thank you, ma'am.

00:48:07I'm terribly sorry.

00:48:08Well, sorry myself.

00:48:10Shouldn't have lost my temper.

00:48:12Come and see me when you get homesick.

00:48:14Central Hall, Ella Bishop.

00:48:15Miss Bishop?

00:48:16Well, my aunt was in your first freshman English class.

00:48:18Yes, you can tell me all about it when you come to see me.

00:48:21Now, scat, we'll let by you.

00:48:24Yes, I will.

00:48:25Thank you, Miss Bishop.

00:48:26Goodbye.

00:48:27Goodbye.

00:48:31Well, thanks.

00:48:32May I come to your office too, Miss Bishop?

00:48:35I have messages for you from three of your former pupils.

00:48:38They took extension work under me at Columbia and...

00:48:41You're John Stevens.

00:48:42Who has been so looking forward to meeting Ella Bishop.

00:48:45Well, Professor Stevens.

00:48:47We're so excited about having you join our staff.

00:48:51I...

00:48:52I had planned a very elegant reception.

00:48:55A little welcoming tea in my office.

00:48:57Very dignified.

00:48:59Well, it's just tea time now, isn't it?

00:49:04Come along.

00:49:14Is Richard come?

00:49:15Not yet, darling.

00:49:16Good night, Granny.

00:49:17Good night, dear.

00:49:18Good night.

00:49:19Good night.

00:49:20Sleep well.

00:49:21And what are your plans for the evening, my tante?

00:49:26You and your freshman friends.

00:49:28You're dodging the question, but I know.

00:49:29Your bowl's coming.

00:49:30Hope you really mustn't.

00:49:32Oh, you don't have to worry, darling.

00:49:34When the kids at college ask me if it's a romance between you and Johnny Stevens...

00:49:37Please, Hope.

00:49:38Oh.

00:49:39What, do you object to my calling him Johnny?

00:49:41He shouldn't.

00:49:42They used to call him Dude.

00:49:43But he's really very popular now.

00:49:45I think he's terribly attractive.

00:49:47Don't you, Ado?

00:49:48Hope if you've any idiotic notions about Professor Stevens and me.

00:49:54Any customers for a sleigh ride?

00:49:56Good evening, Sam.

00:49:57The roads are slick.

00:49:58The moon is bright.

00:49:59And you are out of luck.

00:50:00Well, Sam, I'm going skating with Richard.

00:50:03And that Ella is expecting...

00:50:05Please, Hope.

00:50:06Hello, Richard.

00:50:07Is expecting Professor Stevens.

00:50:09For an academic evening.

00:50:11Come on, Richard.

00:50:12Good night.

00:50:13Good night, children.

00:50:18Hello.

00:50:19Hello, Unleom.

00:50:20If Stevens coming out?

00:50:22Yes, he's bringing a new book.

00:50:25Won't you stay and listen, Sam.

00:50:27You could do with a little brushing up.

00:50:30I don't know why I never had more feelings for books.

00:50:33Wish I had.

00:50:35Don't wish it.

00:50:37I wouldn't change it for the world.

00:50:39You wouldn't marry me, either.

00:50:41But you may yet.

00:50:42Unless this fellow Stevens...

00:50:45Sam, I want you to help me.

00:50:52I want to tell you something.

00:50:54What is it, Al?

00:50:58Professor Stevens has a wife.

00:51:00A wife?

00:51:01She's in Virginia.

00:51:02They haven't seen each other for some time.

00:51:05Well, why doesn't he get a divorce?

00:51:10Sam, how wonderful to find someone in Oak River who doesn't shudder at the word.

00:51:15Well, if it's for your happiness.

00:51:20Thank you, Sam.

00:51:22Excuse me.

00:51:28Good evening, John.

00:51:29Oh, good evening, Ella.

00:51:30I'm sorry I'm a little late.

00:51:32Good evening, Professor.

00:51:33Hello, Sam.

00:51:35May I?

00:51:36I've been trying to persuade Sam to stay and meet your new friend.

00:51:40Mr. Barry, isn't it?

00:51:41Yes, the little minister.

00:51:43I'm afraid it's a little out of my class.

00:51:46Now, if it was Frank Meriwell.

00:51:51Good night, Al.

00:51:52Good night, Sam.

00:51:54Good night.

00:51:54Good night, Sam.

00:52:01The meeting had only one witness, a weaver.

00:52:03And he said solemnly afterwards, they didn't speak, but they just gave one another a look.

00:52:10And they saw the love light in their ean.

00:52:13That's beautiful, isn't it?

00:52:15The life of every man is a diary, in which he means to write one story and writes another.

00:52:25Would you mind reading that again?

00:52:28Just the last sentence.

00:52:29The life of every man is a diary, in which he means to write one story and writes another.

00:52:39I suppose that's true, isn't it?

00:52:50We'd dream dreams and do go on.

00:52:54Look at me, playing hooky in Maple City, if this is Maple City.

00:53:18For a clandestine dinner, and we'd both be dismissed if they found us out.

00:53:24And I love it, don't you?

00:53:26Love it, more than I can say.

00:53:30I'd have to ruin it.

00:53:33I had a letter today from my wife.

00:53:35I want to read you just one paragraph.

00:53:36Oh, no, John, not tonight.

00:53:37It has to be tonight.

00:53:40John, I know I was never the right wife for you,

00:53:43but to consent to a divorce would mean to deny the fate in which I've been brought up.

00:53:54I can understand.

00:53:57But what about us?

00:54:02Yes, what?

00:54:05Ah, a special wine for the lady.

00:54:11Orvieto.

00:54:14Orvieto.

00:54:15I should know, but I don't.

00:54:16It's a little Italian town, Orvieto.

00:54:19It's sunny and warm.

00:54:21It's flooded with warm sunlight.

00:54:23I remember once seeing a beggar there with a beautiful flower and a ragged hat.

00:54:28He was perfectly happy.

00:54:30A beggar with a flower in his ragged hat.

00:54:34And sunlight.

00:54:35I stayed there for weeks and weeks.

00:54:38I ate chestnut bread with the peasants and drank the new wine,

00:54:41and I was perfectly happy.

00:54:42Then I went on to Rome.

00:54:44I did everything the guidebook said, but it wasn't the same.

00:54:49Orvieto.

00:54:54La salute.

00:54:55Ella, why can't you sail for Europe in June?

00:55:02Why can't I join you there?

00:55:03Ah, a special dessert for the lady.

00:55:07Oh, Checo, it's too beautiful.

00:55:10I, I simply can't.

00:55:13I could sail first and join you in Italy.

00:55:19Italy.

00:55:19Ah, a special flower for the lady.

00:55:22Well, thank you, Checo.

00:55:29And goodbye, my dear.

00:55:31Ella, please.

00:55:33We've had three wonderful hours in Orvieto.

00:55:36There are...

00:55:37There's no time here in Orvieto.

00:55:40Can't we stay?

00:55:42Dreams are the only realities.

00:55:43Oh, my darling, is it asking too much?

00:55:46Too much?

00:55:48Or too little, I don't know.

00:55:50I only know that I'd stay, oh, so gladly, John,

00:55:55if I could follow my heart.

00:55:59But you and I, being as we are,

00:56:02there'd be tomorrow.

00:56:05And sometime we'll be glad we spent

00:56:08just this little time in Orvieto

00:56:10and didn't try to go on to Rome.

00:56:13I must catch my train broke, River.

00:56:20I know you'll understand.

00:56:21I'd rather go alone.

00:56:23Come with me to the door.

00:56:32Flower for the lady.

00:56:36Wonderful lady.

00:56:43It's been perfect.

00:56:52All of it.

00:56:55Haven't you forgotten something?

00:56:57Forgotten something?

00:57:00A kiss.

00:57:02A special kiss for the lady.

00:57:13Orvieto.

00:57:38Orvieto.

00:57:43So you're a teacher.

00:57:48You set yourself up to carry a beacon

00:57:51for boys and girls to see by.

00:57:55Well, carry it.

00:58:13It took him three solid hours.

00:58:18And he ate two pens

00:58:20and the better part of a pen holder.

00:58:22But he wrote the thief.

00:58:26Why, there's Mr. Peters

00:58:27and his horse's carriage.

00:58:30Pull, Donya, pull.

00:58:33Pull.

00:58:35What's that?

00:58:37Somebody hell off, will ya?

00:58:38Get a horse.

00:58:54Sam.

00:58:56Here she is, Al.

00:58:59Come to take you home.

00:59:01Sam, is it safe?

00:59:03Why, sure.

00:59:04If you keep her speed

00:59:05within a reasonable limit.

00:59:06Well, got to wind her up.

00:59:12Boy.

00:59:20Upper boy.

00:59:27Say, fellows,

00:59:28will you give her a push

00:59:29when I give you the signal?

00:59:31Yes, sir.

00:59:32We'll give you a push.

00:59:33Yeah, we'll push you a push.

00:59:34Stand back, everybody.

00:59:39Ready, Al?

00:59:41Head on tight.

00:59:42Oh, Sam.

01:00:09Oh, Sam.

01:00:10Really. Thank you so much.

01:00:15Well, what do you think of the Uncle Sam's automobile?

01:00:18I saw it this morning.

01:00:19But look, Aunt Ella, a wedding gift for Richard's mother.

01:00:22The wedding isn't for two months.

01:00:24Well.

01:00:25Oh, Richard, how lovely.

01:00:27Come on in, all of you.

01:00:29We'll have some of Stena's elderberry wine.

01:00:31All this excitement calls for a celebration.

01:00:33Oh, I've got a class meeting at six, Miss Bishop.

01:00:35Oh, just for a minute, Richard.

01:00:36Oh, what a shame.

01:00:37As president of the senior class, I suppose you do have to be there, don't you?

01:00:40Yes, I'd like me to spin you out, Richard.

01:00:43Oh, gosh, Mr. Peter.

01:00:44Hop aboard.

01:00:45Thanks.

01:00:49There's a knack to this cranking business, Al.

01:01:01Bye.

01:01:10Well, here it is.

01:01:19Without a horse.

01:01:21Oh, they are lovely, Hope, darling.

01:01:24And you shall have the most beautiful wedding dress in the world to do justice to them.

01:01:28The most beautiful wedding dress I ever saw was Carol Allen's.

01:01:32What was Carol's dress like?

01:01:34It was her mother's.

01:01:35It was the most gorgeous white satin.

01:01:39So many girls get married in their mother's wedding dresses.

01:01:42Hope.

01:01:45Come up to my room with me, dear.

01:01:47Oh, Aunt Ella, it's the loveliest thing I've ever seen.

01:01:54You can have it made over any way you like.

01:01:57They're yards of material.

01:01:58Oh, but I wouldn't have it changed for worlds.

01:02:00It's so quaint.

01:02:03Sort of in the heirloom class.

01:02:05Uh-huh.

01:02:06And it's so bridal.

01:02:07But it was never finished.

01:02:12No, it was never finished.

01:02:16Oh, Aunt Ella.

01:02:18Aunt Ella, darling, I somehow never thought.

01:02:21Was it for you?

01:02:22Yes.

01:02:24I know I shouldn't ask, but was it?

01:02:29Well, you know, I always thought that you and Professor Stevens...

01:02:32Made in that fashion?

01:02:34No, dear.

01:02:36Oh, no, of course not.

01:02:38But he did resign so suddenly last year, and so many people thought...

01:02:41So many people have so many wildly romantic thoughts, my dear.

01:02:46But do you like the dress?

01:02:50Oh, I couldn't have dreamed of...

01:02:53I am a taxpayer.

01:02:57Caught his son reading Mein Kampf and blamed it on me.

01:03:03What's on your mind, my pet?

01:03:06Love.

01:03:06What a novelty.

01:03:10This is...

01:03:13For one thing...

01:03:16He's married.

01:03:20It's...

01:03:20It's a man I met in Chicago.

01:03:24He's quite a well-known explorer.

01:03:28I see.

01:03:29Can't he...

01:03:31Oh, she won't.

01:03:35Oh.

01:03:36It wouldn't be an open scandal.

01:03:39I could go along as a member of the expedition.

01:03:41Secretary or something.

01:03:44Oh, Aunt Ella.

01:03:47You can't know.

01:03:48I could sail first and meet you in Italy.

01:03:57I think I can understand.

01:04:00Almost anything but...

01:04:02About this.

01:04:03You've been content to stay in one spot.

01:04:07But I've got such a hymn to go places.

01:04:10Magic carpet places.

01:04:13Rich, exciting, and warm.

01:04:15It's a little town in Italy.

01:04:18For Vieto.

01:04:19Sunny and warm.

01:04:21Flooded with warm sunlight.

01:04:29It...

01:04:29It must be your own decision, dear.

01:04:31It's a big step to take, of course.

01:04:37But it's been taken...

01:04:39Many, many times.

01:04:42Doubtless often happily.

01:04:45Many times unhappily.

01:04:49There's just...

01:04:50One thing you must consider.

01:04:53Reputation?

01:04:54No.

01:04:57You'd be cutting yourself off from motherhood.

01:04:59That's what's stopping me.

01:05:03I think that any woman who's half a woman...

01:05:06Oh, forgive me, Aunt Ella.

01:05:09And besides, you had mother to bring up.

01:05:11Yes, darling, I had your mother.

01:05:16I remember the first time I had her in my arms.

01:05:20She was practically brand new.

01:05:24She was crying.

01:05:25I was terrified to pick her up.

01:05:31But I did.

01:05:33She stopped crying and...

01:05:36Began making little...

01:05:39Contented peeping noises like a chicken.

01:05:42That was so satisfying.

01:05:46The feel of her was, too.

01:05:48That warm little body against mine.

01:05:54But it...

01:05:55Wasn't the same.

01:06:00Couldn't be, could it?

01:06:04Flesh of my flesh.

01:06:08Those are thrilling words, Gretchen.

01:06:18One slightly used magic carpet.

01:06:28The same.

01:06:31Thanks, great aunt.

01:06:34Don't mention it, grandies.

01:06:36Anytime.

01:06:38I'll come to you.

01:06:39Don't worry.

01:06:41And now I'm off to keep the dinner date.

01:06:43I rather thought I might cancel.

01:06:45With Buzz Wheelwright.

01:06:46China and reckless romance.

01:06:51And now a charcoal broiled steak at Jake's Oak River joint.

01:06:55With Buzz Wheelwright.

01:06:57It needn't be Buzz Wheelwright.

01:07:00It probably won't.

01:07:02But at least he's a date for this evening.

01:07:05So long, Lambie Pie.

01:07:06Goodbye, toots.

01:07:12Oh, there I go again.

01:07:14I will not live in the past.

01:07:19To the future.

01:07:21The future.

01:07:27Sit down, Sam.

01:07:29Can't, Elle.

01:07:31If I did, I probably couldn't get up.

01:07:33Besides, I'm expecting three more old bachelors for dinner in the bridge.

01:07:43Old bachelor.

01:07:46Doesn't that give you a twinge of conscience?

01:07:49Oh, Sam.

01:07:50Well, anyway.

01:07:55If you feel like a hand later.

01:07:57I might have said.

01:07:58Well, if you do, just...

01:08:00Just holler, Sam.

01:08:02Just holler, Sam.

01:08:03I will.

01:08:05Hope to see you later, Elle.

01:08:11Goodbye, Sam.

01:08:12Willie, you.

01:08:32Let's go.

01:08:34Let's go.

01:08:39My dear President Crowder, you're quite right.

01:08:43I'm over 70 and I've been teaching long enough.

01:08:47You don't know how much your cooperation means, Miss Bishop.

01:08:51If I were in my sixties, you wouldn't find me so cooperative.

01:08:55If I were in my sixties...

01:09:05President Crowder,

01:09:07when you came here a year ago,

01:09:11there were some people who felt

01:09:13that no one could fill the shoes of President Watts.

01:09:19Some of them even got a bit excited, remember?

01:09:23Yes, I do.

01:09:25Well, I wasn't one of them.

01:09:27I learned years ago that

01:09:31no one is irreplaceable at Midwestern.

01:09:35So,

01:09:41it's come the end of the term.

01:09:43But Miss Bishop, there's so much I'd like to say to you.

01:09:45Don't, please.

01:09:47Don't, please.

01:10:01We both outlived our usefulness, I guess.

01:10:05Don't, please.

01:10:11Hi.

01:10:13In here, dear.

01:10:15Aunt Ella, haven't you even started a dress?

01:10:19I'm not going, Gretchen.

01:10:21Aunt Ella.

01:10:23I'm sorry, dear.

01:10:25I just decided.

01:10:27After all, I've been to 51 alumni banquets.

01:10:2951 times have I sat through an hour of bad food

01:10:33and three hours of bad speeches.

01:10:35It's no good toots.

01:10:37It's no good toots.

01:10:39You're not fooling me one bit.

01:10:41Darling, I know how you must feel.

01:10:43Sort of the...

01:10:45Well, the end of...

01:10:47If you do know how I feel, you'll run along like a good child.

01:10:51Have a good time.

01:10:53Leave me here with my...

01:10:57Well, my New Yorker.

01:11:00Want to catch up on some Broadway plays.

01:11:02Now that I'm a lady of leisure, I may get to New York yet.

01:11:07Sorry, Lamy Pie, but you've got to come tonight.

01:11:10Gretchen, I absolutely...

01:11:11For a reason.

01:11:13Parents!

01:11:17Aunt Ella.

01:11:23How'd you get here?

01:11:39We flew in from California.

01:11:41We wanted to try you.

01:11:43We decided we just couldn't miss the last banquet at Old Central.

01:11:46I had no business leaving Aunt Ella,

01:11:48but no business could have kept me from going to this banquet with you.

01:11:51And Buzz is commandeered his Papa's car, chauffeur and all.

01:11:54Yes, Buzz is in on it too.

01:11:55I'm afraid I am, Miss Bishop.

01:11:57So now, Miss Bishop, will you hurry and dread?

01:12:03Well, I expect I will.

01:12:05I'll help you.

01:12:13Oh, darling, this hair can't be right.

01:12:15It's all the rush.

01:12:16There.

01:12:17Your hair looks perfect, toots.

01:12:19And you are.

01:12:20Aunt Ella, you look regal.

01:12:22And here's the final touch.

01:12:24Aha, an admirer.

01:12:25Oh, Gretchen.

01:12:28You don't know what a thrill I get out of a florist's box.

01:12:31Seize it from Buzz.

01:12:32He was going to produce them in the car,

01:12:34but I thought it might be better for you to pin them on here.

01:12:39Orchards.

01:12:42Gretchen, do you know...

01:12:43I know we've got to hurry.

01:12:44Stick them on.

01:12:52No, Aunt Ella.

01:12:53No, not at the waist, Pat.

01:12:54Here, on the shoulder.

01:12:56Much snappier.

01:12:57Yes?

01:12:59Yes.

01:13:01I must above all things be snappy.

01:13:03You've got something there, darling.

01:13:06Here's your wrap.

01:13:11Here.

01:13:14Ah...

01:13:16Miss Bishop, may I have the honor?

01:13:46President Crowder, I...

01:14:00All for you, baby.

01:14:02My stiff upper lip.

01:14:16To midwestern colors blue.

01:14:26Wave through the night winds.

01:14:34Earth's heart blue.

01:14:44Our alma mater.

01:14:50Down till blue.

01:14:58Midwestern blue.

01:15:08And now, one of her first pupils.

01:15:24Anton Radchik.

01:15:28Astronomer extraordinary.

01:15:30Winner of the Nobel Prize.

01:15:34Mr. Radchik.

01:15:38Ladies and gentlemen, friends,

01:15:40I'm sure that Miss Bishop will remember the day when I,

01:15:44a simple farm boy, said to her,

01:15:48My life's ambition is to be a great astronomer,

01:15:53because since I can remember,

01:15:56the stars have been to me comfort,

01:15:59and beauty,

01:16:01and like friends.

01:16:06Or, uh, if she doesn't remember that,

01:16:08I could manage to trip over another chair.

01:16:14United States Senator.

01:16:17Senator John McRae.

01:16:22Miss Bishop, uh, probably won't remember Senator,

01:16:26but, uh, if you'd just call me Snapper.

01:16:34And I'm sure she'll never forget the day that, uh,

01:16:38I announced,

01:16:39English ain't what I come for.

01:16:50Miss Miller Fields.

01:16:53World famous historian.

01:16:56My ambition in life

01:17:08is still

01:17:10to be just like you, Miss Bishop.

01:17:22For your irreplaceable gift

01:17:24of human sympathy,

01:17:25and because you exemplify to all of us

01:17:27what the American spirit can be,

01:17:29your university bestows on you

01:17:31the highest degree in its power.

01:17:33to the highest degree in its power.

01:17:34I can't thank you.

01:17:35I can't thank you.

01:17:36Won't even try.

01:17:37I can't thank you.

01:17:38Won't even try.

01:17:39I can't thank you.

01:17:40I can't thank you.

01:17:41I can't thank you.

01:17:42I can't thank you.

01:17:43I can't thank you.

01:17:47I can't thank you.

01:17:48I can't thank you.

01:17:57I can't thank you.

01:17:59I can't thank you.

01:18:00I can't thank you.

01:18:03I can't thank you.

01:18:04I won't even try.

01:18:06I'll only say that,

01:18:08that I've had a long life.

01:18:10that I've had a long life.

01:18:14And in that life I've seen the brave,

01:18:18the gallant, and the kind.

01:18:23They keep coming on.

01:18:27The best in this country.

01:18:30So now,

01:18:33Old Central and I are retiring

01:18:36to make way for modern buildings and methods.

01:18:45It seems an appropriate time to quote the words of our great founder.

01:18:51Words that inspired us

01:18:54when Central Hall and I were both very, very young.

01:18:59Wisdom is the first cousin to freedom.

01:19:09And freedom is the glory of our nation and our people.

01:19:20So here's to our nation.

01:19:22She's young.

01:19:31She's growing too fast.

01:19:35She makes a lot of mistakes.

01:19:39But somehow she does manage to keep her people free.

01:19:46May she always.

01:19:47May she always.

01:20:01Take me over there.

01:20:02To her own acquaintance

01:20:10with your love

01:20:16and never

01:20:30Good old dog, Trey.

01:20:45Always thinking of me.

01:20:50Sam, there's a question you've been wanting to ask me.

01:20:55Stop.

01:20:56Don't you go answering any questions until they're asked, see?

01:21:10I've been scared to time out all the time in the world.

01:21:17All the time in the world.

01:21:26All the time in the world.

01:21:56The End

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