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Bachelor Mother is a american film of genre Drama directed by Garson Kanin released in USA on 4 august 1939 with Ginger Rogers
Bachelor Mother (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 august 1939
Length 1h22
Directed by Garson Kanin
OriginUSA
Themes Christmas films
Rating74%
Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers (in a mostly non-dancing and non-singing role), 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 .
Synopsis
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City who has just been told that since the Christmas season is ending she is going to be dismissed. During her lunch break, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Fearing the baby is going to roll down the steps, Polly picks it up as the door is opened, and is mistakenly thought to be the mother.Actors
Ginger Rogers
(Polly Parrish)
David Niven
(David Merlin)
Charles Coburn
(J. B. Merlin)
Frank Albertson
(Freddie Miller)
Dennie Moore
(Mary)
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