My Dear Miss Aldrich

1937
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1h 14m

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Maureen O'Sullivan, Rita Johnson, Edna May Oliver, and Walter Pidgeon in My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich, along w... Read allWhen the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich, along with her Aunt Lou, heads for New York, where managing editor Ken Morley's attitude towards ... Read allWhen the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich, along with her Aunt Lou, heads for New York, where managing editor Ken Morley's attitude towards women reporters prompts Martha into taking a reporter's job on her own newspaper. Then she... Read all

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Trivia
Six years later, Sam Fuller used this same "small-town Midwesterner inheriting a New York newspaper" plot device--albeit quite seriously--for Power of the Press (1943).

Goofs
Toward the end of the cafeteria scene, someone off-screen sneezes.

Quotes
Mrs. Atherton: [as the phone rings] Shall I answer the phone?
Martha Aldrich: Oh, you might as well - that's why they ring it. When they don't want you to answer, that's when they don't ring.
Mrs. Atherton: That's another thing - that sarcastic sarcasm of yours.

Crazy credits
Everything said about Nebraska is true. Every Nebraskan has sarcastic sarcasm.

Connections
Referenced in A Night at the Movies (1937)

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7/10

Charming and Beautiful

I'm speaking of Maureen O'Sullivan of course. She is indeed very charming and beautiful, beautiful and charming.

I won't go over the plot. Everybody has already done that. Besides, writing plot summations bores me to tears.

The script is smart and funny, funny and smart. The acting is fairly standard for the 1930's. Not too heavy, not too light. But very professional. It is a comedy after all. And a very good comedy at that. Lots of laughs, lots of funny lines and situations.

A movie to make you smile. A movie to make you laugh. And that was greatly needed in the 1030's. Lots of dark times during that decade. But they sure had some wonderful movies to make them smile.