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Bachelor mother

A single girl is mistaken for the mother of an abandoned baby.

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  • "Mademoiselle et son bébé"

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  • "Feature film from the USA. Comedy. A shopgirl finds an abandoned baby and is mistaken for its mother, while the department store owner's son is mistaken for its father."
  • "Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at the orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the baby is hers. Her boss, David Merlin, son of the department store tycoon, is outraged by her unmotherly conduct, and arranges a job for her if she will look after her child properly. His Dad thinks the child is his secret grandson! In the end David falls in love with Polly and the boy and plans to marry her, all the while believing she is the child's mother."
  • "A single girl is mistaken for the mother of an abandoned baby."@en
  • ""Leaving work after she has been dismissed from her job at Merlin's department store, salesgirl Polly Parrish happens upon a woman leaving an infant on a foundling's home doorstep and is pounced on by the attendants as its mother. After furiously protesting that she is not the baby's mother, Polly leaves the orphanage, but the officials from the home track her down at work. Feeling sorry for the 'unwed mother, ' the boss's playboy son, David Merlin, intercedes to get her a better position in the toy department. When Polly still refuses to keep the infant, however, David threatens to fire her, and she reluctantly accepts motherhood. Polly quickly develops a maternal love for the boy, whom she names Johnnie, and David's compassion for mother and child also ripens into love. Matters reach a climax when disgruntled shipping clerk Freddie Miller sends a note to J.B. Merlin claiming that Johnnie's father is none other than his own son David. Anxious for a grandson, J.B. threatens to take the baby from Polly. Desperate, Polly convinces her landlady's son to pretend to be the baby's father, and as she visits J.B. to introduce him as the baby's father, David appears with Freddie, claiming that the shipping clerk is Johnnie's real father. Confronted by two fathers, J.B. remains unconvinced of the baby's parentage. As Polly prepares to flee, David proposes, and all ends happily as Polly and David plan to marry and adopt baby Johnnie"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."
  • "Comedy about a young shopgirl who catches a woman leaving a baby on a foundling home doorstep. She takes the baby into her care, but has a diffic."@en
  • "Ginger becomes a mother when a child is abandoned. The single salesgirl causes a scandal, but it's all laughs in the end."@en
  • "Polly, as Miss Rogers portrays her, is the salesgirl who catches a woman leaving an infant on a foundling home's doorstep and is pounced on by attendants as its mother. In vain, thereafter does she protest her spinsterhood. In a jiffy, or even less, the store-owner's son is doing his best to make the little mother comfortable. The owner is thereby convinced it's his grandson--he'd have known that chin anywhere--and Rogers and Niven struggle forlornly to prove their innocence of parenthood."@en
  • "Comedy about a young shopgirl who catches a woman leaving a baby on a foundling home doorstep. She takes the baby into her care, but has a difficult time convincing anyone that the child is not hers."@en
  • "When a beautiful young shopgirl takes an adopted baby, everyone around her starts jumping to the wrong conclusions."@en
  • "Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control."

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  • "Christmas films"
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedies"
  • "Drama"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Features"
  • "New Year programming"
  • "Feature films"

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  • "Bachelor mother"
  • "Bachelor mother"@en
  • "Bachelor Mother"@en

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