Bachelor Mother

""And a little child shall lead them"... into the most delightfully surprising complications you've seen on the screen!"

1939

1h 22m

7.1(69 votes)

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.

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Cast & Crew

34 members

Acting

Ginger Rogers

Polly Parrish

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David Niven

David Merlin

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Charles Coburn

J. B. Merlin

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Frank Albertson

Freddie Miller

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E. E. Clive

Butler

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Elbert Coplen Jr.

Johnnie

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Ferike Boros

Mrs. Weiss

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Ernest Truex

Investigator

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Leonard Penn

Jerome Weiss

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Paul Stanton

Hargraves

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Frank M. Thomas

Doctor

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Edna Holland

Matron

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Dennie Moore

Mary

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June Wilkins

Louise King

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Dorothy Adams

Secretary (uncredited)

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Murray Alper

Dance Floor Gatekeeper (uncredited)

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Irving Bacon

Clerk at Exchange Window (uncredited)

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Joseph E. Bernard

Store Watchman (uncredited)

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Jack Chefe

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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Chester Clute

Oliver (uncredited)

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Alec Craig

Store Watchman (uncredited)

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Jean De Briac

Waiter (uncredited)

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Reed Hadley

Polly's First Dance Partner (uncredited)

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Charlie Hall

Dance Hall Official (uncredited)

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Florence Lake

Oliver's Wife (uncredited)

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Perc Launders

Policeman in Park (uncredited)

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Horace McMahon

Dance Floor Official (uncredited)

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Harold Miller

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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Bert Moorhouse

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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Clarence Nash

Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

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Barbara Pepper

Dance-Hall Hostess (uncredited)

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Hugh Prosser

Merlin's Chauffeur (uncredited)

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Leona Roberts

Old Lady (uncredited)

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Estelle Taylor

(uncredited)

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