Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother
Poster
Directed byGarson Kanin
Screenplay byNorman Krasna
Story byFelix Jackson
Produced byBuddy G. DeSylva
StarringGinger Rogers
David Niven
Charles Coburn
CinematographyRobert De Grasse
Edited byHenry Berman
Robert Wise
Music byRoy Webb
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • June 30, 1939 (1939-06-30)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$509,000[1]
Box office$1,975,000[1]

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[2] 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.

It was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, starring Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and inspired the Bollywood film Kunwara Baap.

  1. ^ a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994, p. 55.
  2. ^ "Classic Film Guide". Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2011-03-28.

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