Forty Little Mothers (1940)

6.5/10 • 90 min • 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.

Cast

Eddie Cantor

Gilbert Jordan Thompson

Bonita Granville

Judith Anderson

Madame Granville

Rita Johnson

Ralph Morgan

Judge Joseph M. Williams

Martha O'Driscoll

Veronica Lake

Nydia Westman

Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche

Diana Lewis

Esther Dale

Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Frances Gifford

Margaret Early

Eleanor

Ed Brady

Stephen Chase

Professor Lange

Jack Chefe

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