Forty Little Mothers

(1940)

90 minutes

Comedy / Drama

Directed by Busby Berkeley

Cast:

Eddie Cantor as Gilbert Jordan Thompson 
Judith Anderson as Madame Granville 
Ralph Morgan as Judge Joseph M. Williams 
Rita Johnson as Marian Edwards 
Bonita Granville as Doris 
Diana Lewis as Marcia 
Nydia Westman as Madamoiselle Cliche 
Margaret Early as Eleanor 
Martha O'Driscoll as Janette 
Charlotte Munier as Lois 
Louise Seidel as Betty 
Baby Quintanilla as Chum 

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A professor who has not had a job in a while gets help from an old friend to teach at a privileged girl’s school. It does not go well for him there, since he begins taking care of deserted child even though it is against the rules to have a family. The girls in the school are not fond him since he took the place of a good-looking and favorable teacher. They are always trying to find a way to get him in trouble.