| Bachelor Mother | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Garson Kanin |
| Screenplay by | Norman Krasna |
| Story by | Felix Jackson |
| Produced by | Buddy G. DeSylva |
| Starring | Ginger Rogers David Niven Charles Coburn |
| Cinematography | Robert De Grasse |
| Edited by | Henry Berman Robert Wise |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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.
- ^ a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994, p. 55.
- ^ "Classic Film Guide". Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2011-03-28.