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Synopsis: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influential Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit agains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): William Wyler
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
1961
108 min
2,276 Views


You know why we had to wait.

I couldn't leave Martha until...

"...until the school was

on its feet." Yes, I know.

I've never heard you

talk this way before.

Why are you angry tonight?

I don't know.

Why don't you know?

Why don't you know?

People feel the way

they feel, that's all.

I feel lonely, and I feel tired

and I'm sick of plans

for the future.

- Do you feel in love?

- Other people's children.

- I asked you, do you feel in love?

- Don't be cute.

What I'm trying to ask you,

only you talk so much, is...

Can we have a baby

12 months from now?

All right, kid. You got a date.

How I love you.

Love you. Love you. Love you.

Martha,

Joe and I decided tonight.

We're going to be married two

weeks after school lets out.

So soon!

It doesn't seem so soon to Joe.

No, I suppose it doesn't.

Congratulations.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the

wedding right here at the school?

The garden will be in full

bloom and the roses out.

We could put up a

candstriped awning.

And then good-bye,

Wright-Dobie school.

My marriage isn't going to make

any difference to the school.

It will, Karen. You know

it will. It can't help it.

You keep saying things like that.

We've talked about all this before.

You know Joe isn't asking me to give

it up, and I'm not going to leave.

No, of course not. I don't know

what I could be thinking of.

I don't understand you!

It's been so hard

building this place up.

Just when we're getting on our feet you're

ready to let it all go right to hell!

Martha, for God's sake, do you

expect me to give up my marriage?

No.

No, of course not.

I'm sorry, Karen.

I don't know how I

could be so selfish.

Please, forgive me.

I already have.

It's been a long day. We

both need some sleep.

Yes, you're right.

Who has the cooking

detail for breakfast?

I do.

Karen...

you know, don't you, that I

only want the best for you?

I know.

"This proves me base,

"if she first meet

the curled Antony

"he'll make demands of

her, and spend that kiss

- "which is my heaven..."

- Evelyn. Evelyn.

Can't you imagine yourself as

Cleopatra talking to an asp?

"This knot intrinsicate

"of life at once untie.

"Poor venomous fool.

- "Be angry, and dispatch..."

- Mary!

Why, Mary, are you just arriving

for your elocution class?

If you take no interest

in your work, then...

I went to get these flowers

for you, Mrs. Mortar.

You told us you loved flowers. And I

walked so far to get them for you.

That was very thoughtful

of you, Mary.

I suppose I'll have to

forgive you this time.

Thoughtfulness and

courtesy mean breeding

and breeding is an excellent thing.

I think you should write

that down, all of you.

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John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s. more…

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