Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother is a 1939 comedic film about a young woman mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling.

Directed by Garson Kanin. Written by Felix Jackson, Garson Kanin, and Norman Krasna

Just ten baby fingers and ten baby toes – Troubles? Scandal? – Gosh – Nobody Knows (taglines)

John B. Merlin

• I don't care who the father is, I'm the grandfather!

Dialogue

David Merlin: So how do you like her?

Louise King: Pretty good for a fill-in. I'd just as soon go stag.

Polly: You could, too, with those shoulders.

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David Merlin: I wish to return this duck.

Clerk: Certainly, sir. What's wrong with it?

[The duck's head is missing]

David Merlin: It's broken.

Clerk: I can see that, sir, but I have to know where to lay the blame.

David Merlin: Lay the blame on the duck!

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[Attempting to exchange a broken toy at the store David's father owns]

Clerk: Do you have the sales slip?

David Merlin: [to Polly, who is around the corner] Do you have the sales slip?

Polly Parrish: I threw it away.

David Merlin: You should have kept it. [to the clerk] I threw it away.

Clerk: You should have kept it.

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Freddie: [referring to the baby] Where did it come from?

Polly: I got it for Christmas!

Freddie: ...This Christmas or last Christmas?

Cast

• Ginger Rogers – Polly Parrish
• David Niven – David Merlin
• Charles Coburn – John B. Merlin
• Frank Albertson – Freddie Miller
• June Wilkins – Louise King

External links

• Bachelor Mother quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Bachelor Mother at Rotten Tomatoes