Directed by:
Lloyd BaconScreenplay:
Richard SaleCinematography:
Arthur E. ArlingComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Robert Arthur, Gene Evans, Debra Paget, Griff Barnett, Marietta Canty, Robert Patten (more)Plots(1)
The same studio that brought forth Father Was a Fullback was responsible for Mother is a Freshman. Loretta Young stars as Abbigail Abbott, the widowed mother of coed Susan Abbott (Betty Lynn). In order to legally validate Susan's scholarship fund (a legacy of her late grandmother), Abigail enrolls in the university as a freshman. Here she is wooed by Professor Richard Michaels (Van Johnson)--much to Susan's dismay, since she'd set her cap for the professor herself. Rudy Vallee reprises the "stuffy middle-aged suitor" characterization he'd essayed in such previous comedies as The Palm Beach Story and Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Mother is a Freshman afforded audiences the opportunity of glimpsing 20th Century-Fox's familiar "college campus" sets in full Technicolor (these standing sets were also seen in black & white in such 1949 releases as Mr. Belvedere Goes to College and It Happens Every Spring). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Van Johnson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Madame Curie (1943)
Rudy Vallee
USA
Best movies:
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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Barbara Lawrence
USA
Best movies:
Joe Dakota (1957)
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Robert Arthur
USA
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Gene Evans
USA
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
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Debra Paget
USA
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Griff Barnett
USA
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Marietta Canty
USA
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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Robert Patten
USA
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Kathleen Hughes
USA
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Virginia Brissac
USA
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The Little Foxes (1941)
Jeff Richards
USA
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The People Against O'Hara (1951)
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Charles Lane
USA
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Edison, the Man (1940)
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Betty Lynn
USA
Best movies:
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Kathryn Card
USA
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Mickey Finn
USA
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Henri Letondal
Canada
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Buster Phelps
USA
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Libeled Lady (1936)
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Roger McGee
USA
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