Forty Little Mothers

There's Fun in Every Heart-Throb!

6.519401h 30mReleased

Drama

Overview

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.

StatusReleased

Release Date1940-04-26

Runtime1h 30m

LanguagesN/A

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

professor

musical

teacher

Cast & Crew

Eddie Cantor

as Gilbert Jordan Thompson

Bonita Granville

as Doris

Judith Anderson

as Madame Granville

Rita Johnson

as Marian Edwards

Ralph Morgan

as Judge Joseph M. Williams

Martha O'Driscoll

as Janette

Veronica Lake

as Granville Girl

Nydia Westman

as Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche

Diana Lewis

as Marcia

Esther Dale

as Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Reviews

waltzma

Dec 14, 2017

7/10

Eddie Cantor goes from pop-eyed to gooey eyed. A bunch of bratty college age girls are forced to look at themselves in this overly sentimental comedy drama (with a few songs added), raising the sugar count in my system to diabetic coma level. Finding an abandoned baby in a train station, impoverished professor Eddie Cantor must hide him when he …

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