Forty Little Mothers

A change of pace for Cantor and director Berkeley (both entrenched in 1930s musicals) who test the waters of high drama in this fairly successful effort. Cantor plays a former college golden boy who, twenty years later, cannot find work. One day he saves a distraught young mother from committing suicide, and he even goes so far as to set her up in a waitressing job. She betrays him however, when she decides to skip town and leave Cantor with her baby. With the kid in tow, Cantor lands a job as a professor in a girl's school, leaving himself open for the playful abuse of the forty female students in his charge. Their mischievous instincts turn maternal however, when...