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Forty Little Mothers

There's Fun in Every Heart-Throb!
Apr 26, 1940 · 1h 30m
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Drama

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Eddie Cantor
Gilbert Jordan Thompson
Bonita Granville
Doris
Judith Anderson
Madame Granville
Rita Johnson
Marian Edwards
Ralph Morgan
Judge Joseph M. Williams
Martha O'Driscoll
Janette
Veronica Lake
Granville Girl
Nydia Westman
Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
Directed by Busby Berkeley

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country
US

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