About this release
Adapted from Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel Miss Bishop, Cheers for Miss Bishop is a sweeping, tragic epic of lost love and missed opportunities spanning the course of nearly fifty years in the life of the eponymous Ella Bishop. In a spellbinding performance, Martha Scott (Ben Hur, Our Town) portrays Bishop, a teacher at a small Midwestern college who has endured an inordinate amount of misfortune, including broken engagements, ill-fated extramarital affairs and the untimely deaths of many of her closes friends.
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Disc 1
DVDCheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
95 min
ComedyDrama
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Credits
Director
Tay Garnett
Writer
Sheridan Gibney
Adelaide Heilbron
Cast
Martha Scottas Ella Bishop
William Garganas Sam Peters
Edmund Gwennas President Corcoran
Sterling Hollowayas Chris Jensen
Dorothy Petersonas Mrs. Bishop
Sidney Blackmeras John Stevens
Mary Andersonas Amy Saunders
Donald Douglasas Delbert Thompson
Marsha Huntas Hope Thompson
John Archeras Richard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)
Composer
Edward Ward
Release Details
- Packaging
- Keep Case
Images
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- June 29, 2026