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Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother

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Bachelor Mother

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

1939

1h 22m

7.2(81 votes)

Comedy

Romance

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.

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RKO Radio Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

David Niven

David Niven

David Merlin

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

Frank Albertson

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

E. E. Clive

E. E. Clive

Butler

Elbert Coplen Jr.

Johnnie

Ferike Boros

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss

Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex

Investigator

Leonard Penn

Leonard Penn

Jerome Weiss

Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton

Hargraves

Creative team

Directed by: Garson Kanin
Written by: Felix Jackson
Norman Krasna
Produced by: Buddy G. DeSylva

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