Our Miss Brooks

Using students to raise funds for the Principal running for office? That doesn't sound ethical, by today's standards. LOVE Eve Arden, the English teacher in "Miss Brooks". My favorite role is when she is Joan Crawford's sidekick in "Mildred Pierce". She never really got her man in films, and thirty years later, Arden is now the principal in "Grease". In the film version of "Our Miss Brooks", she is the English teacher at the local high school, trying to spur a student on. Gale Gordon is the Principal, and his role is actually pretty toned down from all those episodes in "Lucy". The story takes some left and right turns, but it ends up being all about finding Miss Brooks a husband. I had always thought the film came first, but apparently this was released right at the end of the TV series. Here, life would imitate art... Nick Adams plays the troubled student, and would overdose at age 36. It's pretty good, if you just go along for the ride. Not her best role, but not her worst. Directed by Al Lewis, who had written and directed the TV series. Eve did mostly TV shows after this.