Directed by:
Garson KaninCinematography:
Robert De GrasseComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, Ferike Boros, Ernest Truex, Dennie Moore, Alec Craig, Estelle Taylor, Irving Bacon, Dorothy Adams (more)VOD (1)
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large department store. Single and with no steady beau, Polly leads a quiet life until she discovers a baby left at her doorstep. While puzzled by this development, Polly feels for the child and decides to adopt the baby. However, most of her co-workers raise their eyebrows at Polly's new status as a single mother, believing that she's actually the mother. The owner of the store where Polly works, J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), is taken aback, and his son David (David Niven), who has a reputation as a ladies' man, is dispatched to lead Polly back to the straight-and-narrow. Bachelor Mother was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, a vehicle for then-married Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ginger Rogers
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999) - a.f.
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
David Niven
UK
Best movies:
Murder by Death (1976)
The Brain (1969)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Charles Coburn
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Kings Row (1942)
Frank Albertson
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Fury (1936)
Ferike Boros
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Black Fury (1935)
Ernest Truex
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Dennie Moore
USA
Best movies:
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Dive Bomber (1941)
Angel (1937)
Alec Craig
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Gaslight (1944)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Estelle Taylor
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Where East Is East (1929)
Irving Bacon
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Dorothy Adams
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
The Killing (1956)
Charles Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Fury (1936)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Jack Chefe
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
It Started with Eve (1941)
All About Eve (1950)
Edwin Rochelle
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
King Kong (1933)
Reed Hadley
USA
Best movies:
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Bert Moorhouse
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Amzie Strickland
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Horace McMahon
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Chester Clute
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)