Good Morning, Miss Dove

SLATED BY CRITICS AND JEERED AT BY AUDIENCE UPON ITS INITIAL RELEASE IN 1955 AS "CORNY," "SCHLOCKY," AND "DATED," AS RELEASED ON DVD, IN ITS ORIGINAL 4:3 CINEMASCOPE RATIO (PLEASE, FOLKS...LEARN TO OPERATE THE CHOICE BUTTON YOU HAVE ON "NORMAL," WIDE," "ZOOM," AND "PANORAMIC" ON YOUR FLAT-SCREEN TV REMOTES, AND STOP "KVETCHING," ALREADY---WITH ALL DUE RESPECT), IS ABSOLUTELY "THE" MOST RELEVANT, TIMELY, TIMELESS, AND NECESSARY GRACE, FAVOR, AND "FEELGOOD" PICTURE NEEDED IN OUR PRESENTLY COARSE, AMORAL (AND NO, NOT BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE WIDESPREAD---AND LONG OVERDUE---GAY MARRIAGE AND OVERALL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS THAT NOW DEMAND WE TREAT EACH OTHER---ALL OF US---AS PART OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL "FAMILY"), VERBALLY AND PHYSICALLY COMBUSTIBLE AND THREATENING WORLD LANDSCAPE, THE CURRENTLY UGLY AND UNPRINCIPLED ELECTION-YEAR BEHAVIORS (THE MOST SINCE 1968, IN WHICH HISTORY TRIED, LIKE TODAY, TO PROVE THE PROTESTERS WERE AGITATORS OF A CRIMINAL ELEMENT, WHEN THE REVERSE WAS, HISTORY HAS PROVEN, WAS TRUE. IN SHORT, A SWEET, NOSTALGIC, SIMPLISTIC TALE OF PLAINTIVE HUMAN INTEGRITY, FUNDAMENTAL DECENCY, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LOYALTY, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND HUMANE LOVE---TRANSCENDING THOSE OF BOTH WESTERN AND EASTERN RELIGIONS, CULTURE, AND TRADITIONS---AS PERSONIFIED IN THE BOTTOMLESS RESERVOIR OF A 55-YEAR-OLD NEW ENGLAND SCHOOLTEACHER, FROM 1920-1955, AND HOW THIS WOMAN'S FUNDAMENTAL GOOD CHARACTER AND THE CUMULATIVE DEEDS OVER A 35-FIVE-YEAR PERIOD SHAPED THREE GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE, AS CHILDREN AND ADULTS, GAVE HER THE GRIT TO QUIETLY RETAIN HER FAMILY'S HONOR BY FORSAKING TRUE LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN ORDER TO PAY OFF HER SPENDTHRIFT FATHER'S $11,500 LUXURY-BASED DEBTS (IN POST WWI CURRENCY VALUE), FACE AND SURVIVE THE PROBABILITY OF BONE-MARROW CANCER OF THE SPINE (ONE OF HER BELOVED STUDENTS, PLAYED EXCELLENTLY BY ROBERT STACK, IS HER SURGEON AND SAVIOR) AND, IN PERHAPS THE MOST TOUCHING SCENE IN A PICTURE FULL OF SOUL-WARMING EVENTS, SINGLE-HANDEDLY BLAMING THE MALFUNCTION OF HER FOUNTAIN PEN IN ORDER TO RESCUE THE LOCAL BANK, IN 1932, OF SUFFERING CLOSURE, BY DELIBERATELY DELAYING THE DEPOSIT OF HER PAYCHECK---A WHOLE $98.00 OF MONTHLY PAY---BY THREE MINUTES BEFORE THE CLOSING OF BANK HOURS DURING OF THE ENTIRE TOWN "RUSHING" THE BANK DURING ONE OF MANY SUCH FALSE "PANICS" THAT OCCURRED DURING THAT PARTICULAR YEAR, DESCRIBED AS THE DARKEST OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. A FILM OF ITS TIME...BUT A FILM FOR TODAY, IN ALL ITS BELATED GLORY.

Great story, wonderful acting!

This is the kind of movie they made when it was a joy to go to the movies. GMMD is a heart warming family movie about a teacher who has devoted her life to her elementary school students, to the exclusion of marriage and personal happiness. She suddenly becomes ill while in her classroom, and while waiting for the doctor, (Robert Stack, one of her former students) she assesses her life. Jones is superb as Miss Dove, portraying her as steely firm, unemotional and yet endearing, unyielding to her personal code of ethics and behavior: "right is right, wrong is wrong", and known to all as "the terrible Miss Dove". I read that Jones based her characterization on a nun teacher of her own while a student in a convent school. I've had some nun teachers of my own I'd like to write about, not all favorably.Flashbacks illustrate her young students individual and present lives as a Doctor, Minister, Nurse, Policeman, famous playwright, and petty thief and jailbird (the films comic relief). Will Miss Dove survive her dangerous needed surgery performed by ex student Stack? A sort of female Goodbye Mr. Chips, it is, nevertheless, A film that leaves you feeling just so good!

The picture and sound are great--much better than an old copy of a DVD that I was watching. However, even thought it's 2.35:1 aspect ratio, it is NOT "anamorphic enhanced" , or "Widescreen Anamorphic". So what you are watching is a rectangle with black borders all around it--it does not fill the screen all the way to the edges like a regular "widescreen" movie. I hope this makes sense.

Jennifer Jones was a really good actor. In this role, she ages from a young college girl to a mature elementary school teacher-spinster. The make-up and hair job she was given is a bit harsh. She was much prettier as she aged, but they wanted to make her look "old" and she is only supposed to be in her late 50s at the end of the film.The story is one of those "aw shucks" tales, where the heroine faces an early tragedy and triumphs anyway. I like that the film shows a teacher who cares and how she impacts her students' lives into their adulthood. The film is a series of flashbacks about her career and some of her students, tied together by Miss Dove suddenly facing a life-threatening medical condition. She then daydreams about her past life in the flashbacks.The students get lessons on anti-semtism, class elitism, and redemption from early mistakes in life.This film features a fine supporting cast.A warm and genuine film, worth the time to watch.

In this day and age of action movies and special effects, "Good Morning Miss Dove" is a heart warming old fashioned story of a small town school Teacher and her students. From the beginning your interest begins, the people will remind you of someone or more from your past. Times were simpler, people were more caring about their neighbors and others they knew. Life was more wholesome. Am I being simplistic? probably,... but this story will make you smile and feel warm all over. Its the kind of movie that you pull out and put in the player here and there because you wish to escape into a time that is gone and we will not see again.

I got a DVD of this several years ago but when we replaced our DVD player the DVD didn't play well on the new machine. I love this movie. It is similar to Goodbye Mr. Chips. It is done in flashbacks of a school teacher who is thinking of all of her students over the years, many of who are present in her life as adults. Jennifer Jones does a good job of being a old-fashioned woman who treats people with equality and dignity and teaches values that are timeless. This DVD is much better quality than my older DVD ever was, so glad they released this!!

Many people go through life not knowing whether they have made a difference; this movie shows just how wrong you may be.

I love this film. When the DVD arrived, it was a foreign language version, but the English-speaking version was easily accessed. I am highly delighted.

A glossy cinemascope picture dvd transfer is exellent no bonus jennifer jones in a moving performance as an old spinster teacher and her pupils told in flashback in the same tradition of goodby mr chips sentimental story when she is in hospital reflection of her life

It may be an old film but it passes the test of time, loved it

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