Forty Little Mothers (1940)

Forty Little Mothers
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

Bonita Granville

Judith Anderson

Rita Johnson

Ralph Morgan

Martha O'Driscoll

Veronica Lake

Nydia Westman

Diana Lewis

Esther Dale

Frances Gifford

Margaret Early
Charlotte Munier
Louise Seidel
Baby Quintanilla
Margaret Bert
George Bookasta

Ed Brady

Stephen Chase

Jack Chefe
James Conaty

Richard Cramer

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Harry Depp

Claire Du Brey

Edna Holland

John Ince

Selmer Jackson
Louise La Planche
Perc Launders
James McNamara
Art Miles
Barbara Norton

William H. O'Brien
Anne O'Neal

Oscar O'Shea
Bertha Priestley
Eva Puig

Virginia Sale

Larry Steers
Henry Sylvester
Robert Winkler

Joe Yule
Crew

Busby Berkeley
Ernest Pagano
Jean Guitton

Dorothy Yost
1h 30min. // 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.
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Writing Credits: Dorothy Yost (screenplay), Ernest Pagano (screenplay), Jean Guitton (story)
Starring: Eddie Cantor (as Gilbert Jordan Thompson), Judith Anderson (as Madame Madeleine Granville), Ralph Morgan (as Judge Joseph M. Williams), Rita Johnson (as Marian Edwards), Bonita Granville (as Doris), Diana Lewis (as Marcia) and Nydia Westman (as Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche)
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