Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy

1956 | 1h 42m | Musical, Comedy | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Recently fired shop girl Polly Parish is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby. Believing that his son, Dan, is the father, Polly's former employer J.B. Merlin dispatches him to make an honest woman of her.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Norman Taurog

CAST

Eddie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds

Adolphe Menjou

Tommy Noonan

Una Merkel

PRODUCERS

Edmund Grainger

WRITERS

Norman Krasna

Robert Carson

Arthur Sheekman

Felix Jackson

Host Intros

01:30
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Bundle Of Joy (1956)
Intro Aired: Dec 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bundle Of Joy, 1956.
01:24
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Bundle Of Joy (1956)
Intro Aired: Dec 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bundle Of Joy, 1956.

Related Videos

04:00
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) All About Love
Clip
Department store kingpin Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) getting sentimental with his loyal son Dan (Eddie Fisher), who then joins the staff for a tune by Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon, early in Bundle Of Joy, 1956, mostly financed by Fisher and co-starring his wife, Debbie Reynolds.
03:54
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Worry About Tomorrow
Clip
The married co-stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds haven't yet met, story-wise, so they split the opening song by Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon, in Bundle Of Joy, the 1956 musical re-make of Bachelor Mother, 1939.
03:45
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Charming Character
Clip
Shopgirl Polly (Debbie Reynolds), dismissed and wrongly assumed to be the mother of a foundling, deals with colleague Freddie (Tommy Noonan) then with Dan (Eddie Fisher, Reynolds' husband), the conscientious son of the boss, in Bundle Of Joy, 1956.
02:22
Bundle of Joy - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling in the musical remake of Bachelor Mother, Bundle of Joy (1956), starring Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds.

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