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

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

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.

Lovely, thank you for sharing!

> 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.