Forty Little Mothers (1940)

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.

Directed by: Busby Berkeley

Starring: Eddie Cantor, Bonita Granville, Judith Anderson, Rita Johnson, Ralph Morgan, Martha O'Driscoll

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