Bachelor Mother
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin
Writer: Norman Krasna
Producer: Buddy DeSylva
Bachelor Mother is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna from an Academy Award-nominated story by Felix Jackson (a.k.a. Felix Joachimson) written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story.
- The film was a remake of the 1935 Hungarian film Little Mother from Joe Pasternak and Henry Koster which was never screened in the United States.
- In November 1938, RKO announced that Little Mother would star Ginger Rogers.
- The film replaced Perfect Honeymoon and She Married for Money in Rogers' schedule at RKO. Louis Hayward was originally announced as the male lead.
Filming Locations
- New York City
Previous Showings
11 Runs • 7 Festivals
7,388 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (August 16, 1939)
Original Run: August 16, 1939 (Wednesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (11):
- August 16, 1939 (Wednesday - Saturday)Ginger Rogers, David Niven
- December 12, 1989 · 163 ticketsw/ The Great Man Votes
- May 25 - 27, 1994 · 635 ticketsw/ Carefree
- August 31 - September 1, 1995 · 613 ticketsw/ The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- November 6 - 10, 1998 · 1,334 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ The Thin Man
- December 22 - 23, 1999 · 611 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ The Bishop's Wife
- November 17 - 18, 2004 · 394 ticketsBrandow/ Follow the Fleet
- August 14 - 17, 2009 · 1,712 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Swing Time
- March 10 - 12, 2012 · 850 ticketsWinter 2012w/ People Will Talk
- September 11 - 13, 2019 · 642 ticketsSummer 2019w/ Stage Door
- November 28 - 29, 2019 · 434 tickets80 Years Ago in This Theatre: The Films of 1939w/ Goodbye, Mr. Chips