• 1940
  • Approved
  • 1h 30m
Forty Little Mothers

Summary 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. View more details

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1h 30m

Forty Little Mothers

Directed : Busby Berkeley

Written : Dorothy Yost Ernest Pagano Jean Guitton

Stars : Rita Johnson Ralph Morgan Eddie Cantor Judith Anderson

All cast & crew

6.5

Details

Genres : Drama Romance

Release date : Apr 25, 1940

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama Romance

Release date : Apr 25, 1940

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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Rita Johnson and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor and Margaret Early in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Judith Anderson, Eddie Cantor, Bonita Granville, Diana Lewis, and Louise Seidel in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor, Bonita Granville, Rita Johnson, and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor, Bonita Granville, Rita Johnson, Diana Lewis, and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor and Baby Quintanilla in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Veronica Lake, Eddie Cantor, Margaret Early, Bonita Granville, Louise La Planche, Diana Lewis, Charlotte Munier, Martha O'Driscoll, Bertha Priestley, Baby Quintanilla, and Louise Seidel in Forty Little Mothers (1940) Eddie Cantor, Margaret Early, Bonita Granville, Diana Lewis, Martha O'Driscoll, Bertha Priestley, Baby Quintanilla, and Louise Seidel in Forty Little Mothers (1940)
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