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

Bachelor Mother (1939)

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

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Garson Kanin
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    Polly Parrish Ginger Rogers
  • Profile picture of David Niven
    David Merlin David Niven
  • Profile picture of Charles Coburn
    J. B. Merlin Charles Coburn
  • Profile picture of Frank Albertson
    Freddie Miller Frank Albertson
  • Profile picture of E. E. Clive
    Butler E. E. Clive
  • Profile picture of Ferike Boros
    Mrs. Weiss Ferike Boros
  • Profile picture of Ernest Truex
    Investigator Ernest Truex
  • Profile picture of Leonard Penn
    Jerome Weiss Leonard Penn

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Keywords

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