Bachelor Mother
"And a little child shall lead them"... into the most delightfully surprising complications you've seen on the screen!
1939•1h 22m•7.2/10
ComedyRomance
Ratings
🎬TMDb
7.2/10(82)
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.
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
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Cast
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)
Murray Alper
Dance Floor Gatekeeper (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Clerk at Exchange Window (uncredited)
Joseph E. Bernard
Store Watchman (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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