Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304383193
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304383193
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: January 05, 1998
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 1672
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1956
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Description:
Mistaken identity and crossed heart strings result when a cheerful, out-of-work salesgirl is mistaken for the mother of an abandoned infant. Although she tries to explain the situation at first, she is soon singing a different tune when the baby helps her win back her job, win over the boss's son and discover her own maternal instincts. This musical version of Ginger Rogers' classic, Bachelor Mother (1939), is the only film to team America's favorite newlyweds of the 1950s, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Year: 1956 Director: Norman Taurog Starring: Eddie Fiher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot, Una Merkel
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Rating:  - Bundle of Joy
I had never even heard of this movie until I saw it on TCM about a year ago. It is a cute story about a young salesgirl Polly (Debbie Reynolds) who ends up getting fired from her job. On the way back to her house she sees a young baby on the orphanage steps and saves it from a terrible fall. When she takes the baby into the orphanage they think it is her baby that she is giving them. The employees think that because she was fired she can't provide for "her" baby so they convince her boss to give her the job back. She ends up realizing later in the movie how much she loves the baby and wants to keep it. She meets the man of her dreams (ironically her real husband, Eddie Fisher) and adopts the baby.
When are they going to put this movie on DVD?
Rating: - Eddie When Young & Talented.
This was Eddie's chance to shine. He'd had his own television shows for about three years before he made the mistake of marrying Debbie Reynolds. It was not a marriage, but a publicity stunt which went bad. She had to try to outshine him in his movie debut, but couldn't quite manage it. I loved her in 'Tammy and the Batchelor' but then she was pretending to be a young, backward Southern girl in love with an older man who was pledged to someone else, a sophisticated pure-bred.
The baby was a delightful little actor. He looked just like Buddy Hackett. The Christmas theme set it off with beautiful Technicolor, and Eddie's 'mumbling' in the interview scene was reminiscent of someone I know. Being the son of the store owner, he could have any girl he wanted, but he again made a mistake by choosing one he thought was 'experience' since she already had a child.
The music was spectacular. This is Eddie at his best!
Rating:  - A not so funny musical comedy
This movie aired recently on TCM. It was a remake of Bachelor Mother which starred Ginger Rogers. Bachelor Mother was considerably better than this dud.
Basically the script is quite poor and not very funny. Eddie Fisher, while possesing a nice voice, just doesn't cut it as an actor. Debbie Reynolds does her usual good job but she simply can't carry this movie out of its mediocrity.
I feel I was quite generous in giving this movie two stars.
Rating: - loved it, it was joyful
Bundle of Joy (1956) 98 minutes
Director: Norman Taurog Studio: Turner Home Video
Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel, Tommy Noonan, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds playing as Polly Parrish has a job at a department store and gets fired for selling too much merchandise. People end up bringing the merchandise back the next day. When she got fired she was walking home looking at the hiring agencies window for a job. When she proceeded down the street she found a baby on the steps of a foundling agency. The people walked out and saw that she had left the baby, so they thought. The people at the agency talked to the big boss at her job and explained why she needed her job back. She tried to tell the people that this was not her baby, but no one would listen. She took the baby in and loved him like only a mother would. The boss, Dan Merlin got involved and wanted to help her.
Everyone she tried to tell the story too did not believe her or she would just stop because it sounded crazy that something like this would happen to anyone.
This was a fairytale of sorts, kind of like Cinderella. This movie was in color, but was in black and white before. Bundle of Joy is a classical and a musical in one.
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Rating:  - Great movie for little girls!
I fell in love with this movie as a young girl. It has been one of my favorites ever since and is now one of my 10 year old sister's favorites. It's a great movie that I'll definitely share with my kids.
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