This film is so beautifully heartwarming - I can't imagine anyone not liking it. The baby (played by the intriugingly named Baby Quintanilla) is just adorable and so photogenic.
Eddie Cantor plays Gil Thompson a college professor fallen on hard times. He meets a young deserted mother (the under- rated Rita Johnson). After helping her find a job - he then finds her baby that she had left in a railway waiting room while she contemplated suicide.
Through an old school friend Eddie gets a job at an all girls school and the film brightens up then. Of course Eddie has to take the baby, he names Chum - even though, of course there is a no babies allowed rule.
Dame Judith Anderson really lets go for this role. It is hard to believe that this was her next film after "Rebecca"!!! She plays the head mistress, who has just dismissed the only male professor for being too good looking. She is so funny,(who would have thought) as is Nydia Westman as her dizzy vice principal. Whenever I see it I cry my eyes out at the part where Eddie lectures the girls for making fun of Baby Chum. He seems to have a real rapport with the baby .
Bonita Granville (her intenseness of "These Three" long gone) is the head girl and Veronica Lake can be glimpsed (just) as one of the girls.
Eddie Cantor plays Gil Thompson a college professor fallen on hard times. He meets a young deserted mother (the under- rated Rita Johnson). After helping her find a job - he then finds her baby that she had left in a railway waiting room while she contemplated suicide.
Through an old school friend Eddie gets a job at an all girls school and the film brightens up then. Of course Eddie has to take the baby, he names Chum - even though, of course there is a no babies allowed rule.
Dame Judith Anderson really lets go for this role. It is hard to believe that this was her next film after "Rebecca"!!! She plays the head mistress, who has just dismissed the only male professor for being too good looking. She is so funny,(who would have thought) as is Nydia Westman as her dizzy vice principal. Whenever I see it I cry my eyes out at the part where Eddie lectures the girls for making fun of Baby Chum. He seems to have a real rapport with the baby .
Bonita Granville (her intenseness of "These Three" long gone) is the head girl and Veronica Lake can be glimpsed (just) as one of the girls.