Bachelor Mother
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| Directed by | Garson Kanin |
| Produced by | Buddy G. DeSylva |
| Written by |
Felix Jackson (story) Norman Krasna |
| Starring |
Ginger Rogers David Niven Charles Coburn |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Robert De Grasse |
| Edited by |
Henry Berman Robert Wise |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $509,000 |
| Box office | $1,975,000 |
Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on an Academy Award nominated story by Felix Jackson (aka Felix Joachimson) written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother. With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment.
It was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, starring Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. This movie also inspired some Bollywood movies like Kunwara Baap .
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City. Hired as temporary help for the Christmas season, she receives her dismissal notice as the season comes to a close. During her lunch break, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Fearing the baby will roll down the steps, Polly picks it up. An attendant opens the door and mistakenly believes that Polly is the baby's mother.
David Merlin (David Niven), the playboy son of the store's owner J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), is sympathetic to the "unwed mother" and arranges for her to get her job back. Mrs. Weiss (Ferike Boros), Polly's landlady, offers to take care of the boy when Polly is at work. Unable to convince anyone that she is not the mother, and threatened by David with loss of her job if she doesn't assume that role, Polly gives up and starts raising the child.
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