Movie
Bachelor Mother
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1939-06-30
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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 Butler
- Elbert Coplen Jr. as Johnnie
- Ferike Boros as Mrs. Weiss
- Ernest Truex as Investigator
- Leonard Penn as Jerome Weiss
- Paul Stanton as Hargraves
- Frank M. Thomas as Doctor
- Edna Holland as Matron
Crew
- Garson Kanin - Director
- Norman Krasna - Screenplay
- Felix Jackson - Story
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