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THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE premieres in London. Direced by Ronald Neame. Written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, and Allen's subsequent 1966 London stage production. Set in the early 1930s at a girls boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Maggie Smith delivers an Oscar-winning acting masterclass as the titular Jean Brodie, a charismatic, iconoclastic history teacher who takes it upon herself to inculcate in her impressionable "creme de la creme" group of 12 year old students a radically provocative approach to life and love that is the antithesis of the school's archly conservative policies. Robert Stevens, Pamela Franklin and Gordon Jackson co-star, with music by Rod McKuen
