[workingdog]

I don't think you can understand the 1960s without seeing her glorious movie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

It captures the tension of social norms and rebellion and, if one pays attention, the natural consequences of unbridled enthusiasm.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw

[frereubu]

Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a bit for some reason.

I've always thought of her as being well-known, but apparently it was Downton Abbey that really made her properly famous, which she didn't really like: https://x.com/lewispringle/status/1839680373774581849

[cafard]

But the book and movie are set in the 1930s, though I guess 1930s through a 1960s sensibility.

[jonjacky]

I think her character Prof. McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies drew heavily on her much earlier role as that other Scottish school teacher, Jean Brodie.

[whamlastxmas]

Lovely, thank you for sharing!

[udkl]

> I don't think you can understand the 1960s

I think the same of "The Graduate (1967)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKafIqhEvk

Note - this is not a movie she is in.