My Dear Miss Aldrich *** (1937, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 11,262

‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’

A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude to female reporters makes Martha take a reporter’s job on her own newspaper.

Director George B Seitz’s 1937 My Dear Miss Aldrich is a farce that simmers rather than boils, but it is short running (74 minutes), fast paced and quite charming, and contains lots of good humour and funny, witty lines.

It is nimbly acted too, with a memorable central performance by Pidgeon in his first leading part with the MGM studio, and Edna May Oliver stealing some of the scenes as a dotty old matron, Mrs Atherton.

It is written and produced by Herman J Mankiewicz.

Also in the cast are Rita Johnson, Janet Beecher, Paul Harvey, Charles Waldron, Walter Kingsford, Roger Converse, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Leonid Kinskey, Brent Sargent, J Farrell MacDonald, Robert Greig, Arthur Belasco and Jack Norton.

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