Question: When I was very young I watched a movie about a teacher who was dying, and in it you saw how she had changed the lives of the students she had taught over the years. I loved it, but I have no idea who was in it or what the name was. I would love to show it to my children, but no one I've described it to has any idea of what I'm talking about.
Answer: I'm sure the movie you're looking for is Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), with Jennifer Jones as a small-town New England schoolteacher whose lifelong influence reached far beyond her classroom. You're not the first person who's asked about it, but I only recently figured out what the film was. So I hope everyone who's asked me over the years is reading now. That said, as far as I can tell, it's never been commercially available on video, let alone DVD. I've
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