Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother (1939)

30/06/1939
Comedy, Romance
1h 22m

"And a little child shall lead them"... into the most delightfully surprising complications you've seen on the screen!

Overview

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

  • Garson KaninDirector
  • Norman KrasnaScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $509,000

  • Revenue

    $1,975,000

Keywords

  • new year's eve
  • new york city
  • baby
  • department store
  • misunderstanding
  • motherhood
  • abandoned baby

Top Billed Cast

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

David Niven

David Niven

David Merlin

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

Frank Albertson

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

E. E. Clive

E. E. Clive

Butler

Elbert Coplen Jr.

Johnnie

Ferike Boros

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss

Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex

Investigator

Leonard Penn

Leonard Penn

Jerome Weiss

Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton

Hargraves

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