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Coming Of Age | Scotland
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Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1970 | Maggie
Best Original Song | 1970
Best Music Original Song | 1970
Best Supporting Actress | 1970 | Pamela
Female Dramatic Performance | 1970 | Maggie
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1970 | Jay Presson
Best Actress | 1969 | Maggie
The school desks had to be raised so that some of the girls wouldn't look as grown-up as they really were. In fact, one of the girls was a twenty-year-old mother.
Jean Brodie's name refers to Deacon William Brodie, a notorious Edinburgh figure. By day, it is said he was an upstanding member of society, and by night he was a criminal. It is said that he was hanged on a gallows that he set up.
The original play was offered to Dame Maggie Smith first. Because of movie commitments, she declined and Vanessa Redgrave played Miss Brodie on stage. However, when this movie was being made, the role of Miss Brodie was offered to Redgrave first. This time, she had prior commitments and declined and Dame Maggie Smith took the role, offered her originally, and won an Oscar for playing it. According to director Ronald Neame, Redgrave phoned him saying that she refused to repeat that "proto-Fascist part". Neame claims he was relieved because he didn't want to use her anyway.
Seventy-five girls were needed for this movie, and about five hundred showed when auditions were held in London. Faced with such an overwhelming number, the director's assistant separated the girls into more manageable groups of twenty. Director Ronald Neame then asked each girl to giggle, and he made his selections based on how well the girls could do so.
According to Pamela Franklin, even though they were eighteen, she and the other young girls were asked not to eat their lunch in the Pinewood cafeteria in their school uniform costumes for appearance's sake, as beer and wine was served there.
"[Miss Brodie is getting the new girls to introduce themselves] Jean Brodie: Would you like to tell us something about yourself, Emily. Emily Carstairs: [eagerly] I'm a Girl Guide, Miss Brodie. I have six merit badges: one for knot-tying, one for flag-folding... Jean Brodie: [cutting off Emily's list] For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like."
"Jean Brodie: Little girls! I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. You girls are my vocation. If I were to receive a proposal of marriage tomorrow from the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, I would decline it. I am dedicated to you in my prime. And my summer in Italy has convinced me that I am truly in my prime."
