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 ...
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Edna May Oliver | ... | Mrs. Atherton | |
| Maureen O'Sullivan | ... | Martha Aldrich | |
| Walter Pidgeon | ... | Ken Morley | |
| Rita Johnson | ... | Ellen Warfield | |
| Janet Beecher | ... | Mrs. Sinclair | |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Mr. Sinclair | |
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Charles Waldron | ... | Mr. Warfield |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Mr. Talbot | |
| Roger Converse | ... | Ted Martin | |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... | An Attendant (as Guinn Williams) | |
| Leonid Kinskey | ... | A Waiter | |
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Brent Sargent | ... | Gregory |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | 'Doc' Howe | |
| Robert Greig | ... | The Major Domo | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| William Bailey | ... | Dupont (scenes deleted) | |
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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 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 proceeds to prove she can be as good a reporter as any man. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
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Country:
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17 September 1937 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Mi estimada señorita See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USACompany Credits
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Ken Morley: A gun? No.
Mrs. Atherton: How long have you been in New York?
Ken Morley: About twenty years. Why?
Mrs. Atherton: I've only been here a week. I'm smarter than you are.
[pulls small revolver from purse]
Mrs. Atherton: I don't live in New York without carrying a gun.
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This film was first telecast in Philadelphia Friday 13 December 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), followed by San Francisco 29 January 1958 on KGO (Channel 7), and by Los Angeles 24 February 1958 on KTTV (Channel 11). See more »Goofs
Toward the end of the cafeteria scene, someone off-screen sneezes. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Atherton: You've got a gun?Ken Morley: A gun? No.
Mrs. Atherton: How long have you been in New York?
Ken Morley: About twenty years. Why?
Mrs. Atherton: I've only been here a week. I'm smarter than you are.
[pulls small revolver from purse]
Mrs. Atherton: I don't live in New York without carrying a gun.
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Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Edna May Oliver star in "My Dear Miss Aldrich," from 1937.
Martha Aldrich (O'Sullivan) is an advocate for women's rights and also a teacher. When she inherits a New York City newspaper, she and her aunt (Oliver) head for New York. There they meet the chauvinistic editor Ken Morley (Pidgeon) who has never had a woman on staff. Not having met Martha, he assumes she will be no problem, just some midwest schoolteacher.
The first thing she does is get a story no one else could get. She then asks for a job as a reporter. He reluctantly okays it. When a major strike is looming, Martha goes on a hunt to find out what's happening and scoop the other papers.
Maureen O'Sullivan is gorgeous and vivacious; Edna May Oliver steals all the scenes she's in; and Pidgeon does a good job, despite not being quite the rugged chauvinist that perhaps Spencer Tracy would have been. Pidgeon was too gentlemanly.
Oliver was 54 when she made this film and 59 when she died, having played the old aunt for most of her career. Remarkable.
An enjoyable movie, nothing special.