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Up the Down Staircase is a 1967 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along with Patrick Bedford and Jean Stapleton. The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher.
Up the Down Staircase: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White. The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
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- Drama
- Robert Mulligan
- 1967-06-28
Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published on January 27, 1965, which spent 64 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 1967 it was released as a film starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton and Eileen Heckart. Plot
- Bel Kaufman
- 1964
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school. Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late.
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Up The Down Staircase follows the story of a feisty rookie educator who passionately teaches a group of New York inner-city students, encouraging them to rise above their circumstances. Based on the best selling novel by Bel Kaufman.