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Forty Little Mothers

 
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Forty Little Mothers

  • Director: Busby Berkeley
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Family Drama, Melodrama
  • Themes: Parenthood, Down on Their Luck
  • Main Cast: Eddie Cantor, Judith Anderson, Rita Johnson, Bonita Granville, Ralph Morgan
  • Release Year: 1940
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 88 minutes

Plot

In this drama, a former big-man-on-campus, finds himself almost destitute twenty years later because he cannot find a job. This does not prevent him from helping out a depressed single mother who is about to commit suicide. He saves her and helps her find a job as a waitress. She thanks him by leaving town and abandoning her son. The poor man is now stuck with raising the baby. He manages to find himself a job as a professor in a girls' school. There he is tormented by his fun-loving female students. When the mischievous girls learn that their professor has a young baby, they rally to his aide. They also help him conceal the babe from the school administration because they would be scandalized and fire him. Eventually the boy's mother is located. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Diana Lewis - Marcia; Nydia Westman - Mlle. Cliche; Margaret Early - Eleanor; Martha O'Driscoll - Janette; Baby Quintanilla - Chum; Veronica Lake - Bit Part; Charlotte Munier - Lois; Louise Seidel - Betty

Credit

Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Busby Berkeley - Director, Ben Lewis - Editor, Charles Tobias - Songwriter, Nat Simon - Songwriter, Charles Lawton - Cinematographer, Harry Rapf - Producer, Jean Guitton - Screen Story, Ernest Pagano - Screenwriter, Dorothy Yost - Screenwriter, Jean Grulton - Play Author

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