in history - The Children's Hour If you haven't seen this 1961 movie starring 24346 Hepburn,Shirley MacLaine and James Garner please don't read the Wiki article linked below unless you don't mind knowing how it ends "Best friends Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are headmistresses at a successful private school for girls in New England. Mary Tilford, a spiteful, angry child, is caught in a lie and punished. In retaliation she tells her grandmother, a matriarch in the town, that Martha was "jealous" of Karen's relationship with Dr. Joe Cardin, and tells that Martha's Aunt Lily thought those feelings were "unnatural." Grandma believes her and pulls Mary out of school. The word quickly spreads and within days Karen and Martha are faced with empty classrooms. Joe is fired from the hospital for siding with the teachers. Karen and Martha sue for slander in a case that makes national headlines." Here's the trailer but be warned that the last bit of the trailer gives away the climax of the movie Wikipedia has a good article which covers the censorship problems producers have had to struggle with to adapt the original 1934 play. Unfortunately,I can't post a direct link to the page so you'd have to go to Wiki and search for the movie yourself 's_Hour_(film)

That's one of the free movies I got in the gift bag for the party I volunteered for.

watched it yet?

No, but i've read the play.