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Forty Little Mothers (1940)

Directed by Busby Berkeley

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.

Length 90 minutes

Actors

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 | Alden '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