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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Maisie (1939)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.