Forty Little Mothers

Year: 1940

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: English

Director: Busby Berkeley

Drama

An out‑of‑work professor receives a favor from an old college friend and accepts a position at an elite girls’ academy. Soon he discovers an abandoned child and, defying the school’s rule that teachers may not have families, takes the baby in. The students, loyal to the former teacher, resent his arrival and scheme to have him dismissed.

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