Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

23/11/1955 (US)•Comedy, Drama•1h 47m

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Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.

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Jennifer Jones
Miss Dove
Robert Stack
Dr. Tommy Baker
Kipp Hamilton
Virginia Baker
Robert Douglas
John Porter
Peggy Knudsen
Billie Jean Green
Marshall Thompson
Wilfred Banning Pendleton III
Chuck Connors
Bill Holloway
Biff Elliot
Reverend Alex Burnham
Jerry Paris
Maurice Levine

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A review by CinemaSerf

6.0

Written by CinemaSerf on Nov 14, 2023

Jennifer Jones is quite good here as the pernickety "Miss Dove". She's a no-nonsense school mistress who finds herself a bit poorly one day. Luckily the pupil she is disciplining happens to be the son of her doctor, so he is sent for and shortly thereafter she is carried, stirrup fashion, from her school to the hospital. Quickly, we all discover that although she gives off the aura of a bit of an austere woman, she is actually highly respected by a community that is appreciative of her style of teaching. To illustrate this, we embark on a series of flashbacks as the great and the good from the...