Bachelor Mother (1939)

  • NR
  • 06/30/1939 (US)
  • 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.

Felix Jackson

Story

Norman Krasna

Screenplay

Garson Kanin

Director

Cast

Ginger Rogers's headshot

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish
David Niven's headshot

David Niven

David Merlin
Charles Coburn's headshot

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin
Frank Albertson's headshot

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller
E. E. Clive's headshot

E. E. Clive

Butler
Elbert Coplen Jr.'s headshot

Elbert Coplen Jr.

Johnnie
Ferike Boros's headshot

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss
Ernest Truex's headshot

Ernest Truex

Investigator

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