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Film / 1940
Forty Little Mothers
Directed by
Busby Berkeley
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Eddie CantorGilbert Jordan Thompson
Bonita GranvilleDoris
Judith AndersonMadame Granville
Rita JohnsonMarian Edwards
Ralph MorganJudge Joseph M. Williams
Martha O'DriscollJanette
Veronica LakeGranville Girl
Nydia WestmanMadamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
Diana LewisMarcia
Esther DaleMrs. Mason the Landlady
Frances GiffordGranville Girl
Margaret EarlyEleanor
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Charlotte MunierLois
Louise SeidelBetty
Baby Quintanilla'Chum'
Margaret BertTeacher
George BookastaCarlos
Ed BradyJob Seeker
Stephen ChaseProfessor Lange
Jack ChefeLawyer
James ConatyAlumni Dinner Guest
Richard CramerHiring Boss
Adrienne D'AmbricourtMiss Porter
Harry DeppHarry - Judge's Secretary
Claire Du BreyGym Teacher
Edna HollandMiss Higgins
John InceBailiff
Selmer JacksonMissing Persons Detective
Louise La PlancheTeenager
Perc LaundersBailiff
James McNamaraJoe Billings
Art MilesJob Seeker
Barbara NortonOld Lady
William H. O'BrienWaiter
Anne O'NealTeacher
Oscar O'SheaJanitor at Train Station
Bertha PriestleyBubbles
Eva PuigMama Lupini
Virginia SaleMiss Fairwell
Larry SteersAlumni Dinner Guest
Henry SylvesterAndrew Blair
Robert WinklerBoy
Joe YuleCounterman at Diner
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