Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother is a 1939 comedic film about a young woman mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling.
 * Directed by Garson Kanin. Written by Felix Jackson, Garson Kanin, and Norman Krasna 

Just ten baby fingers and ten baby toes – Troubles? Scandal? – Gosh – Nobody Knows (taglines)

John B. Merlin

 * I don't care who the father is, I'm the grandfather!

Dialogue

 * David Merlin: So how do you like her?
 * Louise King: Pretty good for a fill-in. I'd just as soon go stag.
 * Polly: You could, too, with those shoulders.


 * David Merlin: I wish to return this duck.
 * Clerk: Certainly, sir. What's wrong with it?
 * [The duck's head is missing]
 * David Merlin: It's broken.
 * Clerk: I can see that, sir, but I have to know where to lay the blame.
 * David Merlin: Lay the blame on the duck!


 * [Attempting to exchange a broken toy at the store David's father owns]
 * Clerk: Do you have the sales slip?
 * David Merlin: [to Polly, who is around the corner] Do you have the sales slip?
 * Polly Parrish: I threw it away.
 * David Merlin: You should have kept it. [to the clerk] I threw it away.
 * Clerk: You should have kept it.


 * Freddie: [referring to the baby] Where did it come from?
 * Polly: I got it for Christmas!
 * Freddie: ...This Christmas or last Christmas?

Cast

 * Ginger Rogers – Polly Parrish
 * David Niven – David Merlin
 * Charles Coburn – John B. Merlin
 * Frank Albertson – Freddie Miller
 * June Wilkins – Louise King