TCM Party screens To Sir With Love tonight
TCM Party is screening To Sir With Love tonight, starring Sidney Poitier as schoolteacher Mark Thackeray. James Clavell directed the 1967 film set in London's East End, where Thackeray takes on a class of working class, previously troubled students and rejects corporal punishment in favor of respect and firm boundaries. The film's theme song, "To Sir With Love," performed by Lulu, topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1967 and became a defining pop ballad. The movie matters because Sidney Poitier's dignified lead and the school's humane pedagogy confronted racial and class expectations and shaped later cinematic portrayals of teachers as agents of social change.
If you’re a certain age, you are singing along with Lulu now. “From crayons to perfume” #tcmparty
💙 jacksonscafe☀️6lulu and maurice gibb (of the bee gees) were married when he was 19 and she was 20. the marriage lasted 5 yrs, but they remained friends. #tcmparty
Tommy Krasker4I am late in responding, but yes, if you are of a certain age, you sing along with Lulu every time you watch this film. And not just that, but you approximate all her vocal and stylistic flourishes and nuances, because that’s the only way you know how to sing this song. 😊😅
