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Forty Little Mothers

1940, Movie, NR, 88 mins

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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 they discover the baby in Cantor's apartment. Knowing he'll be dismissed if the apparently motherless child is discovered by the school's administration, the students aid Cantor in hiding it until the mother is located. leave a comment
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