Mother Is a Freshman

1949 "It's the cheer leader of the year!"

Mother Is a Freshman

6.3 | 1h21m | NR | en | Comedy

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.

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6.3 | 1h21m | NR | en | Comedy

Synopsis

Cast

Loretta Young ,Van Johnson ,Rudy Vallee

Director

Arthur E. Arling

Producted By

20th Century Fox ,

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Cast

Loretta Young

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

[2000] Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces [1962] The New Loretta Young Show [1951] Cause for Alarm! [1951] Half Angel [1950] Key to the City [1949] Mother Is a Freshman [1949] The Accused [1948] Rachel and the Stranger [1947] The Bishop's Wife

Van Johnson

as Professor Richard Michaels

[1992] MGM: When the Lion Roars [1990] Flight from Paradise [1989] Killer Crocodile [1985] The Purple Rose of Cairo [1982] Scorpion with Two Tails [1979] From Corleone to Brooklyn [1978] Superdome [1974] The Girl on the Late, Late Show [1972] Call Her Mom

Rudy Vallee

as John Heaslip

[1968] Live a Little, Love a Little [1967] How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [1955] Gentlemen Marry Brunettes [1950] The Admiral Was a Lady [1949] The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend [1949] Mother Is a Freshman [1948] Unfaithfully Yours [1948] My Dear Secretary [1948] I Remember Mama