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Bachelor Mother

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Bachelor Mother	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Bachelor Mother is a 1939 Screwball Comedy directed by Garson Kanin, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven.Polly Parish (Rogers) is a young single woman working as a salesclerk for John B. Merlin and Son, a large department store in New York City. Unfortunately for Polly, she was hired as a seasonal employee, and on Christmas Eve she is laid off due to the holiday shopping season being over. After leaving Merlin's, she is walking home when she sees a woman dropping off a baby at the doorstop to an orphanage. Polly stops to catch the baby when it looks like he's about to roll off the step—which is exactly when the door opens.The orphanage assumes that Polly is the baby's mother, despite her denials. They contact her last place of employment, and David Merlin (Niven), the "Son" of John B. Merlin and Son, assumes that Polly abandoned her baby because she lost her job. So David offers Polly her job back, but only if she takes back her baby. Hilarity Ensues, as well as romantic sparks between David and Polly.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Bachelor Mother was a big film for both its stars. Ginger Rogers was breaking out as a headliner after years spent in musicals and as Fred Astaire's partner in dance movies. It was one of the first starring roles period for David Niven, although his career as a leading man was soon put on hiatus by World War II.Remade in 1956 as the musical film Bundle of Joy, with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as the leads.
Bachelor Mother	fetched	2021-03-24T06:25:05Z
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Bachelor Mother / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Bachelor Mother / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: David has busted out a book on how to take care of babies. The instructions say that to feed the baby, you should take the food and rub it into the baby's stomach. David insists to Polly that she should rub the food on the baby's stomach because dammit, the man writing the book knows what he's talking about. Polly discovers that the pages of the book are stuck together and the rub-on-stomach business is about using baby oil to relieve gas.
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Bachelor Mother / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
Bachelor Mother / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: Polly is nervous when David issues a last-minute invitation to be his date for a high-society dance. He thus introduces her to his friends as a woman from Sweden who doesn't speak English. They speak faux-Swedish gibberish to each other throughout the evening.
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Bachelor Mother / int_3cd71723	type	Acme Products
Bachelor Mother / int_3cd71723	comment	Acme Products: The employment agency that got Polly the job at Merlin's, to whence she returns after getting laid off, is called Acme Employment Services.
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Bachelor Mother / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Bachelor Mother / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: David breaks the toy duck Polly got for John, and tells her to exchange it at Merlin's. She tells him that she can't, because Merlin's won't take exchanges without a receipt. He insists that they will, and she says they will for him because he's the boss's son. David then says he'll prove it by returning the duck while in disguise. He fails spectacularly, and he's on the verge of getting arrested for shoplifting when the security guard realizes who he is.
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Bachelor Mother / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Bachelor Mother / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When David goes to court Polly, his father, who is following, thinks David is visiting his mistress and illegitimate son.
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Bachelor Mother / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
Bachelor Mother / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Literally, in the case of the baby left on the doorstop of the orphanage, whom Polly becomes entangled with after she stops to keep him from falling off. She eventually names him John.
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Bachelor Mother / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Bachelor Mother / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: David and Polly go to a fancy society dance for New Year's, and then make their way to Times Square for the ball drop (maybe it wasn't all tourists in 1939).
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Bachelor Mother / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Bachelor Mother / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Boss calls underling into his office and gives her a permanent job so she can keep her baby.
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Bachelor Mother / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Bachelor Mother / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In the opening scene John Merlin addresses all of his employees over the PA system, wishing them a merry Christmas. Then an underling goes around dropping off dismissal notices for all the seasonal employees.
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Bachelor Mother / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Bachelor Mother / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The whole movie. Nobody—the orphanage folks, David, Polly's landlady, Polly's would-be boyfriend Freddie—believes Polly when she insists that the baby isn't hers. Eventually she gives up, and, naturally, she winds up bonding with the baby boy.
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Bachelor Mother / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Bachelor Mother / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The faux-Swedish gibberish that Polly and David speak to each other after David introduces Polly to his friends as a Swede who doesn't speak English.
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Bachelor Mother / int_efca7df8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
Bachelor Mother / int_efca7df8	comment	Insignia Ripoff Ritual: Freddie gets promoted from stockboy to assistant floorwalker at Merlin's, a job which requires a carnation in the lapel of his suit. When he winds up nabbing none other than David Merlin for shoplifting, he gets demoted back to stockboy, and the supervisor rips his carnation out of his lapel.
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Bachelor Mother / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Bachelor Mother / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: David either doesn't pick up on or deliberately ignores his father's irritation at David's raucous lifestyle.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Acme Products / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Doorstop Baby / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	I Want Grandkids / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Language Fluency Denial / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Mistaken Identity / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	Romantic Comedy / int_a0bf6a0b
Bachelor Mother	hasFeature	The Remake / int_a0bf6a0b

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