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My Dear Miss Aldrich is a 1937 American comedy drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and Edna May Oliver about a young woman who inherits a New York City newspaper and decides to become a reporter rather than a publisher.
My Dear Miss Aldrich: Directed by George B. Seitz. With Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson. 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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George B. Seitz
- 1937-09-17
Attractive Nebraska schoolteacher Martha Aldrich (Marsha Hunt) inherits a New York paper, and quietly hires on as reporter despite the standing rule of the editor (Walter Pidgeon) never to hire women.
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When Walter Pidgeon wasn't playing Greer Garson's perfect husband at MGM, he could usually be found portraying a newspaper editor. This is how we find him in My Dear Miss Aldrich, the first MGM flick in which Pidgeon was awarded top billing.
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. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
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.
