Bachelor Mother (1939)

Directed by

Garson Kanin

Genre

romantic comedy, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 81 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shopgirl finds an abandoned baby and is mistaken for its mother. A department store owner's son tries to help her, leading to romantic misunderstandings.

lightheartedwhimsicalcharmingcomedicfast-pacedfeel-goodscrewball

What happens

Bachelor Mother is a 1939 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 by Felix Jackson (a.k.a. Felix Joachimson) written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother. With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment. It was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, starring Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and inspired the Bollywood film Kunwara Baap. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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