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Release, runtime and language
1940 · 90 mins · English
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Directed by
Busby Berkeley
Starring
Oscar O'Shea, Judith Anderson, Claire Du Brey, Esther Dale, Ed Brady, Bonita Granville

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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