Bachelor Mother (1939)

06/30/1939 (US) • 1h 22m

Comedy, Romance

"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.

Top Billed Cast

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

David Niven

David Merlin

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss

Ernest Truex

Investigator

Leonard Penn

Jerome Weiss


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$509,000.00

Revenue

$1,975,000.00

Keywords

new year's eve

new york city

baby

department store

misunderstanding

motherhood

abandoned baby

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