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Bundle of Joy(1956)
Status: Released
Date: 1956-12-12
64%
18 Votes
Time: 1h 38m
Full of love, songs, laughs and surprises!
Overview:
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Edmund Grainger Productions
Movie: Bundle of Joy
Top 10 Billed Cast
Eddie Fisher
Dan Merlin
Debbie Reynolds
Polly Parish
Adolphe Menjou
J. B. Merlin
Tommy Noonan
Freddie Miller
Nita Talbot
Mary
Una Merkel
Mrs. Dugan
Melville Cooper
Adams, the Butler
Bill Goodwin
Mr. Creely
Howard McNear
Mr. Appleby
Mary Treen
Matron
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Overview
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Release Date
1956-12-12
Average
6.389
Rating:
3.2 startsTagline
Full of love, songs, laughs and surprises!
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