
Merlin ( Charles Coburn), is sympathetic to the "unwed mother" and arranges for her to get her job back. An attendant mistakenly believes that Polly is the baby's mother, and insists she keep it or be reported to the authorities.ĭavid Merlin ( David Niven), the playboy son of the store's owner J.B. Fearing exposure to the cold will harm the baby, Polly fails to catch the mother and takes it inside. On her way home, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Hired as temporary help for the Christmas season, she receives her dismissal notice as the season comes to a close. Polly Parrish ( Ginger Rogers) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. It was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, starring Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and inspired the Bollywood film Kunwara Baap. With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment. Felix Joachimson) written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna from an Academy Award-nominated story by Felix Jackson (a.k.a. Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn.
