Week Fifty-Nine
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| "My Dear Miss Aldrich" 1937 |
MOVIE NAME: MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH
STUDIO: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CORP.
DIRECTOR: GEORGE B. SEITZ
DATE: 1937
TYPE: NEWSPAPER, COMEDY
CAST:
EDNA MAE OLIVER as Mrs. Lou Atherton , MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN as Martha Aldrich, WALTER PIDGEON as Ken Morley , RITA JOHNSON as Ellen Warfield, JANET BEECHER as Mrs. Sinclair , PAUL HARVEY as Mr. Sinclair, CHARLES WALDREN as Mr. Warfield, WALTER KINGSFORD as Mr.Talbot, SONNY BUPP, as Little Boy
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: When Thomas Hobson,publisher of the Globe-Leader, dies without a will, the paper reverts to his niece, Martha Aldrich, a schoolteacher from Nebraska. Ken Morley, the woman-hating managing editor is not looking forward to working for a woman, especially because he is working on a story about the possible pregnancy of a visiting European Queen. Ken finds Martha attractive and accompanies her and her Aunt, Mrs. Lou Antherton, to spend the weekend at ex-governor Warfield's home. Martha works on Ken, trying to convince him to reverse his policy against hiring women. A few days later, she calls the queen to confirm the pregnancy rumors and lands an interview as well. When she takes ownership of the paper she asks Ken for a job as a reporter. Ken hires her, despite his view on women reporters, partially because he has fallen in love with her. He fires her though, when she passes up a "scoop." She meets Mrs. Sinclair, wife of an important labor leader while shopping, and learns that he is initiating a strike against industrialist Talbot and gets a hunch about a secret settlement. Mrs. Sinclair tells Martha nothing. Martha follows the Sinclairs to the Red Apple Inn, where they and Talbot are ratifying a new contract. While she tries to get her story by hiding in the dumbwaiter, Ken and Aunt Lou discover where she has gone and follow her with reporter Ted Martin. Mrs. Sinclair becomes angry when she finds out that Martha is the owner of the Globe-Leader, and decides to give the story only to the Chronicle and ties Martha up. When Aunt Lou, Ken and Ted show up, they are tied up also. Martha uses the mirror of her compact to cut the ropes and her and Ken sneak out to plant the story, while Aunt Lou pretends to have small pox, causing the restaurant to be quarantined. Realizing that they work well together, Ken proposes that she stay on as a reporter and as his wife.
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