Film

Bachelor Mother

1939 · 1h 22m · Comedy · Romance

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

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

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.

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

David Niven

David Merlin

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

E. E. Clive

Butler

Elbert Coplen Jr.

Johnnie

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss

Ernest Truex

Investigator

Leonard Penn

Jerome Weiss

Paul Stanton

Hargraves

Frank M. Thomas

Doctor

Edna Holland

Matron

Dennie Moore

Mary

June Wilkins

Louise King

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck (voice)

Dorothy Adams

Secretary (uncredited)

• Garson KaninDirector
• Norman KrasnaScreenplay
• Felix JacksonStory
• Buddy G. DeSylvaProducer
• Robert De GrasseDirector of Photography
• Roy WebbOriginal Music Composer
• Robert WiseEditor
• Henry BermanEditor

BACHELOR MOTHER [1939 TRAILER]

Release date

June 30, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

NR

Budget

$509,000

Revenue

$1,975,000

Genres

Comedy, Romance

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