Forty Little Mothers
Released: April 26, 1940Runtime: 90 min
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.
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Eddie Cantor
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Judith Anderson
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Ralph Morgan
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Rita Johnson
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Bonita Granville
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Diana Lewis
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Nydia Westman
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Margaret Early
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Charlotte Munier
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