Forty Little Mothers
Forty Little Mothers

Forty Little Mothers

Watch Movie
1940
1h 30m
6.2(4 votes)
Drama

Overview

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.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast & Crew

43 members
Acting

Eddie Cantor

Gilbert Jordan Thompson

Eddie Cantor
Acting

Bonita Granville

Doris

Bonita Granville
Acting

Judith Anderson

Madame Granville

Judith Anderson
Acting

Rita Johnson

Marian Edwards

Rita Johnson
Acting

Ralph Morgan

Judge Joseph M. Williams

Ralph Morgan
Acting

Martha O'Driscoll

Janette

Martha O'Driscoll
Acting

Veronica Lake

Granville Girl

Veronica Lake
Acting

Nydia Westman

Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche

Nydia Westman
Acting

Diana Lewis

Marcia

Diana Lewis
Acting

Esther Dale

Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Esther Dale
Acting

Frances Gifford

Granville Girl

Frances Gifford
Acting

Margaret Early

Eleanor

Margaret Early
Acting

Charlotte Munier

Lois

No Image
Acting

Louise Seidel

Betty

No Image
Acting

Baby Quintanilla

'Chum'

No Image
Acting

Margaret Bert

Teacher

No Image
Acting

George Bookasta

Carlos

No Image
Acting

Ed Brady

Job Seeker

Ed Brady
Acting

Stephen Chase

Professor Lange

Stephen Chase
Acting

Jack Chefe

Lawyer

Jack Chefe
Acting

James Conaty

Alumni Dinner Guest

No Image
Acting

Richard Cramer

Hiring Boss

Richard Cramer
Acting

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Miss Porter

Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Acting

Harry Depp

Harry - Judge's Secretary

Harry Depp
Acting

Claire Du Brey

Gym Teacher

Claire Du Brey
Acting

Edna Holland

Miss Higgins

Edna Holland
Acting

John Ince

Bailiff

John Ince
Acting

Selmer Jackson

Missing Persons Detective

Selmer Jackson
Acting

Louise La Planche

Teenager

No Image
Acting

Perc Launders

Bailiff

No Image
Acting

James McNamara

Joe Billings

No Image
Acting

Art Miles

Job Seeker

No Image
Acting

Barbara Norton

Old Lady

No Image
Acting

William H. O'Brien

Waiter

William H. O'Brien
Acting

Anne O'Neal

Teacher

No Image
Acting

Oscar O'Shea

Janitor at Train Station

Oscar O'Shea
Acting

Bertha Priestley

Bubbles

No Image
Acting

Eva Puig

Mama Lupini

No Image
Acting

Virginia Sale

Miss Fairwell

Virginia Sale
Acting

Larry Steers

Alumni Dinner Guest

Larry Steers
Acting

Henry Sylvester

Andrew Blair

No Image
Acting

Robert Winkler

Boy

No Image
Acting

Joe Yule

Counterman at Diner

Joe Yule

Similar Movies

Feast of Love
6.2
2007

Feast of Love

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Movie
Tale of the Siberian Land
4.6
1947

Tale of the Siberian Land

His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave the capital and flee from the woman he loves, Natasha, a rising singing star. Andrei takes refuge in Siberia, his native land. Once there, he gets a job in a sawmill, where he entertains his fellow-workers playing the accordion during leisure hours. Some time later, Natasha and her company are expected in America where they are to do a tour. But an airplane breakdown forces the pilot to land next to the village in which Andrei lives and works...

Movie
Car Wash
5.9
1976

Car Wash

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

Movie
Magical Girl
7.4
2014

Magical Girl

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.

Movie
Annie
6.5
1982

Annie

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.

Movie
Dastan
10.0
1950

Dastan

Indira (Suraiya) is an orphan brought up the strict and uprighteous Rani (Veena). Indira grows up to be a beauty and is sought by three suitors Raj (Raj Kapoor), Kundan (Al Nasir), and Ramesh (Suresh). Rani does not like Indira to marry into her family as both Raj and Kundan are her brothers, and she wants Indira to marry Ramesh, and as such arranges a meeting with Ramesh's mom (Pratima Devi) and finalizes the marriage. Indira does not appreciate this and refuses to marry Ramesh. Raj speaks of his love with Rani, and Rani warns him that Indira is to marry Ramesh, but also has an on-going affair with his brother Kundan. Who does Indira really love? Will she ever marry her dream man?

Movie
Marty
7.4
1955

Marty

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.

Movie
Dil To Pagal Hai
6.8
1997

Dil To Pagal Hai

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Movie
Ex Drummer
6.8
2007

Ex Drummer

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.

Movie
You Got Served
6.4
2004

You Got Served

At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers — and their moves — two warring friends have to pull together to represent the street.

Movie
Narratage
6.8
2017

Narratage

Izumi is a sophomore university student when she hears from her former high school teacher and mentor Takashi. They were both involved in the school drama club. She liked him. He liked her. Takashi asks Izumi to return to the school and assist with a performance. Will the feelings be rekindled?

Movie
Tap
6.8
1989

Tap

Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, Little Mo, is happy to see him, because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition, Max's old partners in crime have another job for him.

Movie
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7.1
1954

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

Movie
BEE, My Friend
2020

BEE, My Friend

Zhi Xuan is a new teacher at her alma mater. One day, her troubled student, Zhe Yu commits a misdemeanour which reminds her of a past mistake. Zhi Xuan is determined to help her student solve his family problems, and also seeking redemption for herself.

Movie
The Gambler
6.0
2014

The Gambler

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

Movie
The Woman in the Window
7.4
1944

The Woman in the Window

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Movie
What We Do Is Secret
5.1
2007

What We Do Is Secret

The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon with his band The Germs. Along with Lorna Doom, Pat Smear, and Don Bolles, Darby Crash completely transformed the L.A. punk scene, while sacrificing everyone he loved, his career, and ultimately his life.

Movie
The Emperor's Club
7.1
2002

The Emperor's Club

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Movie
Departures
7.8
2008

Departures

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

Movie
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
5.3
1999

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Free and Easy
5.5
1941

Free and Easy

This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.

Movie
Old Man Junior
6.9
2024

Old Man Junior

Morbius Jr, now an OId Man, is nearing the end of life, when he finds the last hope for all Morbkind. However, as he fights to protect the future of Morbheads, he finds himself facing off against an unlikely of enemy... HIMSELF.

RE
6.4
2014

RE

Emma returns to her childhood home only to find her past catching up with her.

Movie
National Family
6.7
2023

National Family

Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry, he threatens to disinherit his family and leave to rebuild his life. This forces his children (Kippy, Ramses and Belén) to take extreme measures to ensure their future, causing everything that could go wrong to turn out worse.

Movie
7.0
2023

As

Three years after the death of her beloved child, Elouise, Mara still feels her presence when she sits on the butterfly bedding in front of the jar with her ashes in it. Mara arranges a twelfth birthday party for Elouise, further alienating her from her husband, Richter, and remaining daughter, Hannah. Although Mara eventually vacates Elouise's room at the insistence of her husband, she does find a way to stay close to Elouise. Before long, however, Hannah discovers her mother's secret.

Malum
5.5
2023

Malum

A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.

Movie
Fog City
5.5
2023

Fog City

A group of friends seal themselves inside a secluded Cape Cod vacation home after a mysterious orange fog leaks from an old nearby factory. Once trapped, they quickly learn there is no escape.

Movie
The Benetón Family
5.4
2024

The Benetón Family

Toni, a grumpy in his fifties, avoids children at all costs. His life changes when he suddenly has to take care of his sister's five adopted children, each from a different country. Toni will have to deal with new parenthood and cultural differences.

Movie
Le Panache
6.6
2024

Le Panache

Colin, 14, enters a new school and he's freaking out: how do you get by when, like him, you're a stutterer? His meeting with Mr. Devarseau, a charismatic French teacher, will push him to face his fears and break out of his isolation. Now Colin has a group of friends and a project: to go on stage to play Cyrano in front of the whole school.

Movie
Cat and Dog
5.7
2024

Cat and Dog

While about to take off, Monica, the owner of a famous influencer cat named Diva, and Jack, an international thief whose dog Chichi swallowed a stolen ruby, dis- cover that their pets have gotten lost on the tarmac. The owners – and their pets – must team up to find their loved ones. But they don’t know that Brandt, a cop hot on their heels, will do anything to get his hands on the ruby!

Movie
Noryang: Deadly Sea
6.3
2023

Noryang: Deadly Sea

The Imjin War reaches its seventh year in December of 1598. Admiral Yi Sun-shin learns that the Wa invaders in Joseon are preparing for a swift withdrawal following the deathbed orders of their leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Determined to destroy the enemy once and for all, Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to mount a blockade and annihilate the Wa army. However, once Ming commander Chen Lin is bribed into lifting the blockade, Wa lord Shimazu Yoshihiro and his Satsuma army sail to the Wa army's rescue at Noryang Strait.

Movie
Not Without My Shrink
4.9
2024

Not Without My Shrink

A successful psychoanalyst's life is turned upside down by a very anxious and extremely clingy patient who starts dating his daughter.

Movie
Boudica
5.9
2023

Boudica

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.

Movie
Busty Girlfriend
7.3
2019

Busty Girlfriend

Mincheol and Suhee go to greet Minchul father (grandmother) before marriage. Dae - sik welcomes her daughter - in - law, Su - hee. But before marriage, Minchol and Suhee are separated by the difference in personality. Soon-hee, who was only preparing for marriage, is soon to live.

Movie
Granit
7.0
2021

Granit

Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.

Movie
Transmorphers: Mech Beasts
5.6
2023

Transmorphers: Mech Beasts

20 years after the events of Transmorphers, a newer, more advanced species of alien robot descends on a rebuilt Earth, threatening once again to destroy the planet.

Movie
The Last Week of September
6.4
2024

The Last Week of September

Pietro Rinaldi, an elderly writer, widower and tired of life, plans to commit suicide on his birthday. After the sudden and tragic death of his daughter and son-in-law, Pietro will have to look after his teenage nephew Mattia.

Movie
Sayen: Desert Road
6.3
2023

Sayen: Desert Road

Sayen follows a lead to the picturesque desolation of the Atacama Desert. There, she reluctantly teams up with a young Atacameño girl, Quimal, looking to clear her father’s name and save her town from becoming an arid wasteland due to Acteon’s exploitative water usage.

Movie
House of Ga'a
5.6
2024

House of Ga'a

At the height of the Oyo Empire, the ferocious Bashorun Ga'a became more powerful than the kings he enthroned, only to be undone by his own blood.

Movie