Jean Brodie is a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961); and in the play and 1969 film of the same name—both by Jay Presson Allen—which were based on the novel, but radically depart from it in the interest of theatre and poetic licence.
The novel was adapted, with large departures from the original story, for film in 1972 by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, and directed by George Cukor, starring Maggie Smith and Alec McCowen.
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At age 19 at the Annie Russell Theatre she played an 11-year-old stuttering Scottish girl, Mary Macgregor in Jay Presson Allen's popular play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she won Best Supporting Actress.