Complete credited cast: | |||
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 | |
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Scott Douglas | ... | Bill Rand |
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather... Written by Teresa B. O'Donnell <sun.moon.stars@worldnet.att.net>
Glossy and tuneful, if terribly contrived, remake of a just-adequate Ginger Rogers comedy vehicle from 1939 ("Bachelor Mother", itself a reworking of "Little Mother" from 1935). Salesgirl, fired at Christmastime from her department store job for 'over-selling', finds an abandoned baby on the steps outside a foundlings home but can't get anyone to believe the child isn't really hers. The spotlight this time is equally on Debbie Reynolds (doing sprightly, decent work as the bachelor mother) and her then-husband Eddie Fisher (leering at the camera while playing a singing junior-executive). Supporting roles are colorfully filled, production and song numbers are decent, though the script lands us smack in the middle of 101 'risque' misunderstandings (she has a baby but not a husband?! And who's the father?). Worth-seeing for Debbie, who sings and dances--and rolls her eyes with expert exaggeration when it's time to change a diaper. **1/2 from ****