Mother Is a Freshman

Mother Is a Freshman

81 mins | Comedy | March 12, 1949

Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.

Mother Is a Freshman

81 mins | Comedy | March 12, 1949

Mother Is a Freshman
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Mother Is a Freshman
Directors Lloyd Bacon
Writers Mary Loos, Raphael Blau, Richard Sale

Cast

Loretta Young

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

Van Johnson

as Professor Richard Michaels

Rudy Vallee

as John Heaslip

Barbara Lawrence

as Louise Sharpe

Robert Arthur

as Beaumont Jackson

Betty Lynn

as Susan Abbott

Griff Barnett

as Dean Gillingham

Kathleen Hughes

as Rhoda Adams

Henri Letondal

as Prof. Romaine (uncredited)