The Children's Hour

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Children's Hour, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Children’s Hour, 1961.

Doctor Joe (James Garner) has been tangling with Martha (Shirley MacLaine). the partner of his fiancee` Karen (Audrey Hepburn) in a boarding school, and is tired of delaying the wedding, early in The Children's Hour, 1963, directed by William Wyler from Lillian Hellman's play.

Much foreshadowing as Karen (Audrey Hepburn) delivers exciting news to teaching-partner Martha (Shirley MacLaine), unaware of the diabolical Mary (Karen Balkin) eavesdropping in The Children's Hour, 1961, from Lillian Hellman's play.

Spoiled student Mary (Karen Balkin) teases influential Grandmother Tilford (Fay Bainter) with lurid suggestions about her teachers in William Wyler's The Children's Hour, 1961, from Lillian Hellman's play.

Opening title sequence and first scene from William Wyler's The Children's Hour, 1961, introduces the Wright-Dobie School and a musical performance led by Aunt Lily (Miriam Hopkins).