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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Bachelor Mother, it turns a precarious false identity into a brisk romantic comedy, with a resourceful heroine navigating escalating misunderstandings and a polished screwball rhythm.
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Why this pick
Its wartime Washington setting, warmly bustling household chaos, and charmingly delayed romance echo the genial pace and sophisticated comic complications of Bachelor Mother.
03
Why this pick
A sharp, independent woman overturns an insulated male world in this fast, affectionate screwball comedy; it shares Bachelor Mother’s urban sparkle and playful battle-of-wits romance.
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Why this pick
This buoyant Depression-era comedy similarly lets an ordinary working woman get swept into an absurd public misunderstanding, balancing social satire, romance, and light-footed glamour.
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Why this pick
A witty heroine improvises her way through high-society deception in this elegant 1939 farce, offering the same polished banter, romantic momentum, and sympathetic comic stakes.
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01 / THE STORY
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City. Hired as temporary help for the Christmas season, she receives her dismissal notice as the season comes to a close. During her lunch break, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Fearing the baby will roll down the steps, Polly picks it up. An attendant opens the door and mistakenly believes that Polly is the baby's mother.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
David Merlin
Jerome Weiss
Matron
Polly Parrish
J. B. Merlin
Freddie Miller
Investigator
