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  1. May 30, 2011 · The Corn is Green is set in a small Welsh mining village in the 1890s. It tells the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress. The story begins with the arrival of Miss Moffat. She has inherited a sizable income from her deceased father and a house in the village. On her first day in town she hears local boys singing on ...

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  2. Bette Davis as Miss Moffat. The Corn Is Green is a 1945 American drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town despite great opposition. It was adapted from the 1938 play of the same name by Emlyn Williams, which originally starred Ethel Barrymore.

  3. The Corn Is Green: Directed by Irving Rapper. With Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan. A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

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    • Drama
    • Irving Rapper
    • 1945-07-14
  4. The Corn Is Green is not a work on Lessing’s order of complexity—any anxiety Morgan may feel breaking from his milieu is never really explored, though Moffatt clearly wants him to break his links with his background. The world of the Welsh village is sketchily and sentimentally depicted with stagy images of sheep being sheared, cows being milked, and the miners coming home from an ...

  5. The Corn Is Green. The play and the film tell the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress Miss Cooke. Helpful • 44 0. According to director Rapper, Bette Davis hated wearing the wig in the film, but at one point the tin frame from an arc light fell and hit her, and the wig fortuitously saved her from serious injury.

  6. Synopsis. In 1895, the inhabitants of Glansarno, a small village in the Welsh countryside, are taken aback when they learn that L. C. Moffat, their newest neighbor, is a forty-year-old English woman named Lily Cristobel, not a man as her Master of Arts degree had led them to expect. The other members of Moffat's household are her housekeeper ...

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  8. Mar 14, 2018 · In choosing to play a starchy, no-nonsense feminist and teacher in The Corn Is Green, a woman who scorns conventional romantic love and marriage, Davis was offering a kind of rebuke to Curtiz, who had been dismissive and tyrannical with her in the past, calling her a “no-good-sexless-son-of-a-bitch” on the set of The Cabin in the Cotton (1932).

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