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Bundle of Joy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Norman Taurog released in USA on 12 december 1956 with Eddie Fisher
Bundle of Joy (1956)
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Add to a movie listBundle of Joy (1956) is a Technicolor musical remake of the comedy film Bachelor Mother (1939), which starred Ginger Rogers. It stars Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and Adolphe Menjou. An unmarried salesgirl at a department store finds and takes care of an abandoned baby. Much confusion results when her co-workers assume the child is hers and that the father is the son of the store owner.
Carrie Fisher tells the story, in her documentary Wishful Drinking of how Reynolds was pregnant with her when this movie was made.
Actors
Eddie Fisher
(Dan Merlin)
Debbie Reynolds
(Polly Parish)
Adolphe Menjou
(J. B. Merlin)
Tommy Noonan
(Freddie Miller)
Nita Talbot
(Mary)
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