Father Is a Bachelor

Father Is a Bachelor

83 mins | Comedy, Family | Feb. 22, 1950

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.

Father Is a Bachelor

83 mins | Comedy, Family | Feb. 22, 1950

Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Father Is a Bachelor
Directors Norman Foster, Abby Berlin
Writers Aleen Leslie, James Edward Grant

Cast

William Holden

as Johnny Rutledge

Coleen Gray

as Prudence Millett

Mary Jane Saunders

as May Chalotte

Charles Winninger

as Professor Mordecai Ford

Stuart Erwin

as Constable Pudge Barnham

Clinton Sundberg

as Plato Cassin

Gary Gray

as Jan Chalotte

Sig Ruman

as Jericho Schlosser

Billy Gray

as Feb Chalotte

Lloyd Corrigan

as Judge Millett

Frederic Tozere

as Jeffrey Gilland Sr.

Peggy Converse

as Genevieve Cassin

Arthur Space

as Lucius Staley

Warren Farlow

as April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)

Wayne A. Farlow

as April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)

Buddy Clark

as Johnny Rutledge (singing voice) (uncredited)

Ruby Dandridge

as Lily - the Maid (uncredited)

Tommy Ivo

as Jeffrey Gilland Jr. (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard

as Townsman (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

as White (uncredited)

Dooley Wilson

as Blue (uncredited)

Hank Worden

as Finnegan (uncredited)