Starring Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney, Tina Thayer, Ann Doran
Directed by Hugh Bennett

Print: black/white
Runtime: 75 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series came to a quiet conclusion with 1944's Henry Aldrich's
Little Secret. The titular secret is a baby, the son of woebegone Helen Martin (Ann Doran).
Because her husband is in jail, Helen has been adjudged an unfit mother by the local welfare
board, headed by the father of our hero Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon). Taking pity on Helen,
Henry hides the baby in his own home while Helen leaves town to prove her husband's
innocence. The finale finds Henry lampooning Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with a
comic-pathetic filibuster on behalf of poor Helen. Way at the bottom of the cast list is Noel
Neill, TV's future Lois Lane.