Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy

98 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | Dec. 12, 1956

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...

Bundle of Joy

98 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | Dec. 12, 1956

Bundle of Joy
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...
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Edmund Grainger Productions
Original title Bundle of Joy
Directors Norman Taurog
Writers Felix Jackson, Norman Krasna, Robert Carson

Cast

Eddie Fisher

as Dan Merlin

Debbie Reynolds

as Polly Parish

Adolphe Menjou

as J. B. Merlin

Tommy Noonan

as Freddie Miller

Nita Talbot

as Mary

Una Merkel

as Mrs. Dugan

Melville Cooper

as Adams, the Butler

Bill Goodwin

as Mr. Creely

Howard McNear

as Mr. Appleby

Mary Treen

as Matron

Edward Brophy

as Dance Contest Judge

Gil Stratton

as Mike Clancy