The young and beautiful spinster, Marian the Librarian (Jones) makes the perfect stereotype of a small-town librarian. Mrs. Shinn (Gingold), the mayor’s wife, denounces Marian for giving her daughter "smutty books" like The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Later Marian rips a page out of a library book to prevent the Mayor from uncovering one of Professor Hill’s lies. This movie, and the play that proceeded it, have forever engraved the name of “Marian the Librarian” on our profession. Despite her depiction as a stereotype hair-in-a-bun spinster, Marian presents a very positive image for librarians who are willing to fight against censorship. Admittedly, she does suffer one rather major lapse in her professional ethics when she rips a page out of a book to protect Prof. Hill, but this only proves that even librarians are only human. * Image copyright of Internet Movie Database.