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No, it’s not a movie about a whore. It’s Greer Garson, for fuck’s sake! Her Twelve Men, also known as Miss Baker’s Dozen, features Garson as a new teacher at an all- boys’ school where she’s not made to feel terribly welcome. The head of the school (Robert Ryan) doesn’t think she’s qualified and since she’s the first female faculty member they’ve ever known, the boys are all loathe to embrace her either. From early on you can probably guess where this is all going, and you’d be right: at first the kids and faculty hate her, and then they start to love her and can’t live without her. It would be a pretty insufferable affair if not for the considerable charm of its leading lady.