My Dear Miss Aldrich

1937
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1h 14min

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

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen 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... Tout lireWhen 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 ... Tout lireWhen 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... Tout lire

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Anecdotes
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).

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

Citations
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.

Crédits fous
Everything said about Nebraska is true. Every Nebraskan has sarcastic sarcasm.

Connexions
Referenced in A Night at the Movies (1937)

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6/10

Maureen and some screwball

Martha Aldrich (Maureen O'Sullivan) inherits a New York newspaper when the old owner died without a will. She's a distant relative and an "old maid schoolteacher from Nebraska". She is joined by Aunt Lou. Managing editor Ken Morley (Walter Pidgeon) is dismissive of a female owner or hiring any female reporters. Martha decides to prove him wrong.

This does have the great Maureen O'Sullivan but the character does not measure up in this battle of the sexes. I don't like that she stumbles into her stories more often than not. Her character has smarts and Maureen is really good at projecting smart. I would cut back on some of the girlie frivolity and add some small town ingenuity to her character. The movie takes a very screwball physical comedy turn in the second half. It needs to setup this tone at the start. Martha can have some funny trip back in Nebraska. Also, her getup is insane although old movies sometimes had crazy outfits. This is fine but it could have been better.