Up the Down Staircase (1967) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Mulligan |
| Producer(s) | Alan J. Pakula |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Coming of Age |
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Pakula.
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
By Beatrice on Aug 12, 2019 From Flickers in TimeUp the Down Staircase Directed by Robert Mulligan Tad Mosel from the novel by Bel Kaufman 1967/US Park Place Production First viewing?/Amazon Instant Loved the book. ?Not so keen on the movie. It is Sylvia Barrett’s (Sandy Dennis) first year as a high-school English teacher. ?She happens to ... Read full article
Sandy Dennis Goes Up the Down Staircase
By Rick29 on Sep 11, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeI confess that I have never been a Sandy Dennis fan. Perhaps, it was her choice of roles, but her characters always came across as a contrived combination of exaggerated emotions. But after recently watching Up the Down Staircase (1967), maybe Ms. Dennis deserves a reassessment. Her incredibly natur... Read full article
Sandy Dennis Goes Up the Down Staircase
By Rick29 on Sep 11, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeI confess that I have never been a Sandy Dennis fan. Perhaps, it was her choice of roles, but her characters always came across as a contrived combination of exaggerated emotions. But after recently watching Up the Down Staircase (1967), maybe Ms. Dennis deserves a reassessment. Her incredibly natur... Read full article
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Sylvia Barrett: Why do you always say "maybe later"? Maybe sometime, maybe Thursday, and there never is a Thursday.
Sylvia Barrett: If you deny what you know, or what you are, or where you are, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die.
Sylvia Barrett: When I finally get the chance, the first few precious minutes to talk to them about something I want them to understand, and I find that I am some kind of enemy... the butt of some enormous joke.
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Bel Kaufman's original description of Sylvia Barrett was closer to that of Audrey Hepburn.
This movie was filmed in a real live New York City school building. While many people claim that it was filmed in Hell's Kitchen at John Jay College, several landmarks suggest that it was filmed in El Barrio, a section of Manhattan near Spanish Harlem, at J.H.S. #99.
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