Product Description

France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ),French ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large department store. Single and with no steady beau, Polly leads a quiet life until she discovers a baby left at her doorstep. While puzzled by this development, Polly feels for the child and decides to adopt the baby. However, most of her co-workers raise their eyebrows at Polly's new status as a single mother, believing that she's actually the mother. The owner of the store where Polly works, J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), is taken aback, and his son David (David Niven), who has a reputation as a ladies' man, is dispatched to lead Polly back to the straight-and-narrow. Bachelor Mother was remade in 1956 as Bundle of Joy, a vehicle for then-married Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Oscar Academy Awards,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118729 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 83 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

For Those Who Can't Wait for a US DVD of Bachelor Mother
Viewers who insist on owning this outstanding film on DVD can find "Bachelor Mother" for sale at Amazon France for ten Euros plus postage. Look under DVD and search "Mademoiselle et son bebe". IMPORTANT NOTE: To watch the French version of the film you MUST USE a REGION FREE DVD player! The print is not as good as my Laser Disc version, but the film is in English, and the French subtitles are optional. If you can buy this Region 2 French import locally that may save you money, given the frightful French postal charge. There is also a colorized version in England - avoid it!

Bachelor Mother is indisputably one of the best comedies of the Thirties. While reviewers on Amazon have been giving rave reviews to such preposterously over-rated Rogers films as "The Major and the Minor", this movie fully deserves it's five star rating on the video issue. The script is a wholly successful (and deliberate) attempt to flaunt every loophole in the Hollywood censor's code, and even tops off what must have seemed a string of audacities with a snickering joke at the end about the heroine's chastity! Not until Preston Sturges retired the trophy for good with "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" The Miracle of Morgan's Creek would any American film treat 'sacred' motherhood with such audacity.

Wouldn't it be nice if American film fans could buy all their classic films here in the States, and not be forced to turn to France!

For a thorough study of the days of Breen and the 'Code' see The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942 Ignore the negative hyperbole of the bad review.