Bachelor Mother

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Robert Osborne introduces Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Department store heir David Merlin (David Niven) is under-cover, attempting to prove to employee Polly (Ginger Rogers) that it’s easy to return a defective product, disaster ensuing, Fred (Frank Albertson) making things worse, Garson Kanin directing, in Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Merlin (Charles Coburn), owner of the department store that just dismissed holiday-employee Ginger Rogers, and his heir (David Niven) are introduced, while the head of the foundling home (Ernest Truex), who believes she abandoned her baby, follows, in Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Just given-notice Christmas department store clerk Polly (Ginger Rogers, in her first post-Fred Astaire picture) is looking for work when she sees some lady abandon a baby, the folks at the foundling home (Frank Thomas, Edna Holland) immediately suspicious, in Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Department store scion David (David Niven) ambushes employee Polly (Ginger Rogers), just home from a dance contest, whom he wrongly thinks is the mother of a baby left in his custody, causing her to change tactics on the fly, early in RKO's Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Ginger Rogers is a fun-loving shop girl who is mistaken for the mother of a foundling in Bachelor Mother (1939) co-starring David Niven.