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Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna from an Academy Award-nominated story [2] by Felix Jackson (a.k.a. Felix Joachimson) written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother.
Bachelor Mother: Directed by Garson Kanin. With Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson. An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Garson Kanin
- 1939-08-04
Plot. A conniving young man is brought up on charges of reckless driving. To "prove" his innocence and good character, he goes to a nursing home and adopts an old woman whom he presents as his loving mother. Unfortunately for him, she really gets into her role and when he falls in love with a seductive, shady lady, the old lady does all she can ...
Leaving work after she has been dismissed from her job at Merlin's department store, salesgirl Polly Parrish happens upon a woman leaving an infant on a foundling's home doorstep and is pounced on by the attendants as its mother.
- Garson Kanin, Edward Killy
- Ginger Rogers
Bachelor Mother is a 1939 Screwball Comedy directed by Garson Kanin, starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. Polly Parish (Rogers) is a young single woman working as a salesclerk for John B. Merlin and Son, a large department store in New York City.
Synopsis, review and discussion of the 1939 film Bachelor Mother, starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn, and directed by Garson Kanin.
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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.
