Bachelor Mother (1939) - (Movie Clip) Pay The Fiddler, Man!
Department store scion David (David Niven) ambushes employee Polly (Ginger Rogers), just home from a dance contest, whom he wrongly thinks is the mother of a baby left in his custody, causing her to change tactics on the fly, early in RKO's Bachelor Mother, 1939.
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Bachelor Mother (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Want A New Duck!
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