This is a very fun movie.
Ginger Rogers plays Polly Parrish, a salesgirl working for the Christmas season for the department store of John B. Merlin and Son; selling windup Donald Duck toys.
At the close of the Christmas season Polly is dismissed.
While out on her lunch break she notices an old lady leaving a baby on the doorstep of the Atkins Foundling Home. Polly is worried that the baby will roll off the steps, so she picks him up.
The matron of the Home invites Polly to come in.
The Atkins Foundling Home mistakenly believe the baby to be Polly's, and they don't believe her when she tells them otherwise.
The investigator (Ernest Truex) of the Atkins Foundling Home convinces the son, David (David Niven), of John B. Merlin and Son, to hire Polly back so she can care for "her" baby.
Polly is told that her discharge notice was a mistake and that her pay is being raised. David also informs Polly that when she goes home tonight she'll get a Christmas present.
Polly is shocked when her Christmas present turns out to be the baby.
On the way to the dance contest she's going to with an employee of the department store, Freddie Miller (Frank Albertson), Polly drops the baby off at David's home.
David follows Polly to the dance contest to try to hand the baby back to her, but gets thrown out.
When Polly gets back to her apartment she finds David and the baby there.
David is appalled that Polly abandoned "her" baby at his house and went dancing; and tells her that if she won't care for "her" baby she is fired; and she won't get a job at any other department store either.
The rest of the movie is about Polly caring for the baby,
David and Polly falling in love;
and John B. Merlin (Charlies Coburn) mistakenly believing that his son, David, is the baby's father; and insisting that he's going to take him to his house to be brought up properly.
Bachelor Mother is a lot of fun and it's one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.
Sounds adorable! :-)
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