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Director:
Norman Taurog
Writers:
Robert Carson (writer)
Felix Jackson (story)
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Release Date:
12 December 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
Plot:
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
User Comments:
A Bundle of Possibilities more (16 total)

Cast

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Eddie Fisher ... Dan Merlin

Debbie Reynolds ... Polly Parish

Adolphe Menjou ... J. B. Merlin
Tommy Noonan ... Freddie Miller
Nita Talbot ... Mary
Una Merkel ... Mrs. Dugan
Melville Cooper ... Adams, the Butler
Bill Goodwin ... Mr. Creely
Howard McNear ... Mr. Appleby
Robert H. Harris ... Mr. Hargraves
Mary Treen ... Matron
Edward Brophy ... Dance Contest Judge (as Edward S. Brophy)

Gil Stratton ... Mike Clancy
Scott Douglas ... Bill Rand
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #18147) | Finland:S
Company:
RKO Radio Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Eddie Fisher' owned 65% of this film, and Howard Hughes owned the remaining 35%. Debbie Reynolds' salary was $150,000. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of Bachelor Mother (1939) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
A Bundle of Possibilities, 14 December 2007
9/10
Author: arieliondotcom from United States

You've got to take this movie for what it is. A musical. What was interesting to me was seeing Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher together in the height of their relationship. It's a bit dated, but still has catchy tunes (I especially liked Fisher's "Someday Soon"...but I'm a bachelor so maybe I'm prejudiced).

How ironic, though, to see these two who had so many possibilities playing a couple in love when they were in love themselves. Yes, there's chemistry, but they should show this movie to potential drug addicts and drunks to warn them about what Eddie Fisher could have been and what his self-admitted dependencies made him become.

There was so much the two of them had and could have had, Eddie and Debbie,and so much they lost because of his weakness of character. Sad.

A bittersweet story, not in the plot, but in the shadow of reality cast over it by their true life stories. Still worth seeing and hearing, though.

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