Bachelor Mother - 1939 |
Others in the cast include Frank Albertson, Ferike Boros, Leonard Penn, Dennie Moore, June Wilkins, Irving Bacon, and Barbara Pepper (of TV's Green Acres Doris Ziffel fame).
Charles Coburn as John B. Merlin |
New Year's Party |
David Niven tries to exchange a duck |
A great scene occurs at the Pink Slipper Dance Palace. This being a Ginger Rogers film, there, naturally, has to be dancing.
The inside is crammed with people who have entered a dance contest. (Be on the lookout for Barbara Pepper [Green Acres' Doris Ziffel] as a Dance Hostess.)
Ginger Rogers is there dancing with her partner Frank Albertson.
David follows her there, baby and butler in tow. He sees her dancing and exclaims, "So that's the modern generation for you. Twentieth Century motherhood. Throws her baby in somebody else's house and runs out to do that!"
Cast rundown:
Ginger Rogers.......................................Polly Parrish
David Niven..........................................David Merlin
Charles Coburn......................................John B. Merlin
Frank Albertson.....................................Freddie Miller
Ferike Boros..........................................Mrs. Weiss
Leonard Penn.........................................Jerome Weiss
Dennie Moore........................................Mary
June Wilkins..........................................Louise King
Barbara Pepper.......................................Dance Hall Hostess
Irving Bacon..........................................Exchange Window Clerk
Just a little FYI, Bachelor Mother was nominated by the American Film Institute for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies. It didn't make the cut, but it is indeed, very funny.
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