Bachelor Mother (1939)

7.2/10 82 min Comedy Romance

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.

Cast

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

David Niven

David Merlin

Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

E. E. Clive

Butler

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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