Bachelor Mother
Bachelor Mother (1939) is an 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.
Plot
Polly Parrish works as temporary help at a New York City department store. She receives her dismissal notice at the end of the Christmas season. Returning home, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. To protect the baby from the cold, Polly takes it inside. The orphanage staff believe that Polly is the mother and insist that she can continue to care for her child with their help. She, however, leaves the baby.
More details
| author | Norman Krasna |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Garson Kanin |
| editor | Robert Wise |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | abandon baby crush dance competition department store end even force orphanage talk |
| musicBy | Roy Webb |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Story |
| producer | Buddy DeSylva |
| publisher | RKO Pictures |
| recordedAt | New York City |
| theme | romantic comedy screwball comedy |