THE FILM DAILY, April 18, 1940. With five daughters to his (and wife Ida's) credit, one of the running gags in wildly popular radio and movie personality Eddie Cantor's repartee was his inability to father a son. By all accounts, Busby Berkeley's "Forty Little Mothers" is a dramatic tale of a group of spiteful schoolgirls who gang up on an unemployed teacher and the abandoned kid he took in.
October 9, 2013