Eve Arden stars as Madison High School English teacher, Connie Brooks. Excellent writing and a fabulous supporting cast of Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Richard Crenna, and Jane Morgan made "Our Miss Brooks" a hit radio and television show. It was on CBS radio from 1948 to 1957 and on television (with a few cast member changes) from 1952-56. The show won several awards for both media productions.
Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody, but rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits to women's working lives of the time. Connie Brooks was considered a realistic character in a less than glamorized profession (she often joked, for example, about being underpaid, as many teachers are), and who showed women could be competent and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or their humanity.
