Bachelor Mother (1939)
"And a little child shall lead them"... into the most delightfully surprising complications you've seen on the screen!
82 min
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.
- Release date
- June 30, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $509,000
- Box office
- $1,975,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Ginger Rogers as Polly Parrish
- David Niven as David Merlin
- Charles Coburn as J. B. Merlin
- Frank Albertson as Freddie Miller
- E.E. Clive as Merlin's Butler
- Elbert Coplen Jr. as Johnnie - the Baby
- Ferike Boros as Mrs. Weiss - the Landlady
- Ernest Truex as Orphanage Investigator
- Leonard Penn as Jerome Weiss
- Paul Stanton as Hargraves
- Frank M. Thomas as Doctor
- Edna Holland as Matron
- Dennie Moore as Mary
- June Wilkins as Louise King
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck (voice)
- Dorothy Adams as Secretary (uncredited)
- Murray Alper as Dance Floor Gatekeeper (uncredited)
- Irving Bacon as Clerk at Exchange Window (uncredited)
- Joseph E. Bernard as Store Watchman (uncredited)
- Jack Chefe as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- Chester Clute as Oliver (uncredited)
- Alec Craig as Store Watchman (uncredited)
- Jean De Briac as Waiter (uncredited)
- Reed Hadley as Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)
- Charlie Hall as Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
- Florence Lake as Oliver's Wife (uncredited)
- Perc Launders as Policeman in Park (uncredited)
- Horace McMahon as Dance Floor Official (uncredited)
- Harold Miller as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- Bert Moorhouse as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Crew
- Garson Kanin · Director
- Norman Krasna · Writer
- Felix Jackson · Writer
- Buddy G. DeSylva · Producer
- Roy Webb · Composer
- Robert De Grasse · Cinematographer
- Henry Berman · Editor
- Robert Wise · Editor