Product Description

Mistaken identity and crossed heart strings result when a cheerful, out-of-work salesgirl is mistaken for the mother of an abandoned infant. Although she tries to explain the situation at first, she is soon singing a different tune when the baby helps her win back her job, win over the boss's son and discover her own maternal instincts. This musical version of Ginger Rogers' classic, Bachelor Mother (1939), is the only film to team America's favorite newlyweds of the 1950s, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Year: 1956 Director: Norman Taurog Starring: Eddie Fiher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot, Una Merkel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3589 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-01-05
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

A cute film for all the family
Why is it that Leonard Maltin is so critical about nice films that don't harm anyone in any way? "A Bundle of Joy" might not be a film that stimulates the brain cells but it is a jolly nice film all the same. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher are great as the mis-matched couple who end up holding the baby, literally! A musical remake of the 1930s film "Batchelor Mother" this little film has a great musical score and a nice little plot that is easy to follow. When Reynolds an out of work salesgirl finds an abandoned baby everyone thinks it is hers, and this is the start of a comedy of errors that will have you laughing and crying in the same breath. Enter Eddie Fisher, Debbie's employer who thinking she has abandoned her child because she has just lost her job, gives her back her job along with the BABY and the laughs really start in earnest! With an adorable little boy to look after, Debbie has to juggle her life and her job, whilst trying to convince everyone that she is not the boy's mother. Add another complication in the form of Fisher's father played magnificently by Adolphe Menjou who thinks he is a grandfather and sets about claiming his grandchild, and you have a funny, gentle comedy that gives you many a chuckle for the duration of the film. So all you folks that just want a nice little film to watch with no violence, no bad language, and no nude scenes, then this film is for you. It's well worth adding to your video collection if you get the chance.

delightful comedy classic
A remake of the 1930's BUNDLE OF JOY, this also bears simularity to film BABY BOOM, made decades later, about a woman who dosen't want a child but ends up raising one anyway. Debbie Reynolds plays a woman who is fired from her job at a department store around Christmas time, who finds a baby boy in a basket at the door of a shelter. She takes the infant in, expecting the workers to take care of it, only to find, much to her dismay, that they think she is the mother.(This film was made before women could simply give an unwanted child up for adoption.) Convincing them it's not hers is made all the more difficult by the fact that, when in one of my favorite scenes, she gives the baby to a woman working at the shelter, saying,"This is NOT my baby!" and the baby starts crying and screaming when he's taken away from Debbie Reynolds, but imedietly calms down after being put back into Reynold's arms. She finally manages to leave the child and walk out before they can give him back to her, thinking she's gotten off the hook, but they soon find out where she worked, and, beliving that she'd abandoned the child as a result of losing her job, they convince her boss to rehire her. Reynolds is delighted at first when she finds out she's got her job back, but not when she finds out the baby comes with it, and that she's going to be his new mother whether she likes it or not. Definetly worth seeing.

loved it, it was joyful
Bundle of Joy (1956) 98 minutes

Director: Norman Taurog Studio: Turner Home Video
Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel, Tommy Noonan, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds playing as Polly Parrish has a job at a department store and gets fired for selling too much merchandise. People end up bringing the merchandise back the next day. When she got fired she was walking home looking at the hiring agencies window for a job. When she proceeded down the street she found a baby on the steps of a foundling agency. The people walked out and saw that she had left the baby, so they thought. The people at the agency talked to the big boss at her job and explained why she needed her job back. She tried to tell the people that this was not her baby, but no one would listen. She took the baby in and loved him like only a mother would. The boss, Dan Merlin got involved and wanted to help her.

Everyone she tried to tell the story too did not believe her or she would just stop because it sounded crazy that something like this would happen to anyone.

This was a fairytale of sorts, kind of like Cinderella. This movie was in color, but was in black and white before. Bundle of Joy is a classical and a musical in one.

Dan fell in love with the fact that she was able to do such a selfless act. Polly and Dan got married so she did not have to work anymore. I thought this movie was great and had a lot of heart and soul to it. It was a feel good movie. It makes me want to think that good thing do happen to people.

I give this movie , because it had so much to give to the audience. It would be a great movie to take to you Grand-mothers house and enjoy with her.