Forty Little Mothers (1940)

04/26/1940 (US) • 1h 30m

Drama

There's Fun in Every Heart-Throb!

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.

Top Billed Cast

Eddie Cantor

Gilbert Jordan Thompson

Judith Anderson

Madame Granville

Rita Johnson

Marian Edwards

Ralph Morgan

Judge Joseph M. Williams

Veronica Lake

Granville Girl

Nydia Westman

Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche


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Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords

professor

musical

teacher

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