Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay, a nice Christmas black and white romance. With smart dialogue and a baby and a cool department store setting.
Bachelor Mother
It’s available for rent on loads of services. And it has a gritty realism which should speak to the new mothers among us, including a deeply felt monologue about how “you put the baby on his back so he can sleep, and then he rolls over and starts to cry, so you get up and put him on his back again, and then he rolls over and starts to cry, so then you get up and put him on his back again, and then it’s 8am and you’re at work”.
At 8am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we will all go along from there!
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Ginger is nailing the “so tired my eyes won’t stay open” look.
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NOOOOO. You never put a baby on its stomach. They can only sleep on their stomachs when they can roll over on their own!
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It was a different time! no one knew!!!!
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this was before back to sleep slogans were printed on baby clothes!
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Clearly! 🙂
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I hate you David Niven!
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“Oh there can’t be much too it?” – Ginger’s face responses are priceless!
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Motherhood is not so difficult, says the single man who forced someone else into it.
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And he almost fell apart after 3 hours of baby care.
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God that baby is enormous and yet it’s bad at sitting up
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Oh good, he brought her a book!!!!
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Just as if he knows that she only just became a mother!
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Baby is eating solid foods, definitely older than 6 months.
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My middle kid had a gag reflex and didn’t eat solid food till a year!
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Aww! I hope he still slept well.
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For two hours he slept like a champ, unless there was the mildest sound. Yeah those years are all a bit blurry.
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My sister keeps sending us photos of naked children except for diapers screaming in rooms covered in toys and food. Somehow this seems related (her Mrs. Weiss babysitter has been out sick for a week).
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My children would have destroyed that quacking duck in a week, even at 6-8 months.
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I’m a little confused about why Niven is in her apartment?
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He loves the baby
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Because he has a crush on her
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Because the landlady keeps letting him in!
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DEFECTIVE DUCK! Ha ha – I’m patting myself on my back, as I knew that duck would break.
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I am very happy with the total shift in power dynamic between the two of them.
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It’s my favourite thing about this movie
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It is kind of crazy that Ginger is being so sassy to her boss, but then she so sleep deprived she probably doesn’t care any more.
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If my boss was David Niven I’d sass him all the time
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He is so fun when he gets flustered.
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He knows his strengths and he plays to them
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100% When you are sleep deprived, all decorum goes out the window!
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Maybe because she knows she can just feed him a new sob story and he’ll never ever be able to fire her?
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She only got the job because of the kid! If she looses it she is at the same spot she was before.
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The co-workers laugh at the exchange idea was hilarious!
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I’d feel bad for Fred, but I don’t like him, so it’s okay.
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Fred is a jerk
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The pushing into her apartment pretty much lost him all sympathy.
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Yupp. Fred is a poop head.
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Diarrhea skull – that was my middle school go to.
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Comparing a baby to dead body, so disturbing.
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Oh no, he is calling Ginger because he knows she won’t have a DATE! That is gross!
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Or, because he secretly has a crush on her that he hasn’t admitted to himself.
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He just wants an excuse tbh
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I do appreciate the fact that he enjoyed being challenged.
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Wait I thought mothers who leave their children to go to parties were disgusting?
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Someone’s learning a lesson!
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This dreeeeeesssssss
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Yes! I kind of want one like it for my own holiday party!
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Man I’ve never found a 30s lame dress, it would make my year if I did
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I actually really want her bangle/bracelets too!
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Noo I missed them and now she’s wearing a coat
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This is the designer that made all the gowns for Ginger in this film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_(costume_designer)
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Here is a blog that talks about it.
http://www.livin-vintage.com/2010/12/film-fashion-friday-bachelor-mother.html
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Thanks! Those bracelets are great! I love Irene, she did some great costumes.
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Had to take care of a cranky dog for a second. Why is Ginger pretending to be Swedish?
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Because she told David she was afraid to talk to these people, so he lied she was Swedish.
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I would say “why do you spend time time with people you hate?” But it’s New Year’s Eve and I’m gonna assume this is some annual obligation.
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Spouse was espousing on his new theory that people are simply nicer now and that culture is changing. It used to be expected that women were mean to eachother. Even in the movie La La Land it was the actress demanding a re-write that made the roomates nice to eachother. He says the kids are even nicer to eachother than they were 10 years ago. It is as if all those anti-bullying campaigns might be working.
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In my tiny town there are THREE SWEDISH SPEAKERS. I can’t imagine ever being able to go to a party and know that no one there would be speaking a language.
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She would just as soon go what?
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“Stag”, slang for a man going to a party without a date.
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Thank you!
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stag
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Thank you!
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I like the jack-in-the box visuals.
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Yuck, he is kissing her through the veil. Although the rest of this sequence is super cute.
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I was not disturbed. I’ve seen some pretty bad kisses recently and that one was good.
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Where’d you see them?
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Lindsay Lohan holiday movie
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oh man yeah that figures
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That is some new years kiss!
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I told you he had a crush on her all this time!
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Well nothing creates love like laughing together. Now it makes sense!
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And now as she leaves him on the doorstep HE is realizing he has a crush on her. Good chemistry.
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I do find David Niven such a nice, relaxing, non-threatening leading man.
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Landlady! I love her.
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She really is amazing!
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If only all new mothers had such a landlady.
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Some of them do! My parent’s landlady knitted my sister a little hat.
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Okay… this dialogue between Ginger and the Baby is ADORABLE! He’s her fella!
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Totally believable that in less than 2 weeks so goes from “it’s not my baby” to “eh, men come and go, but you’re my fella!” It’s a very cute baby.
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It’s a very cute baby!
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It’s the oxytocin boost. It’s just science!
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It took me longest to bond with my firstborn. So her bond with him is not an obvious conclusion to me.
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I was being facetious. But yes, bonding with babies can be very very hard in real life.
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Fred is really an a$$hat! UGH!
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Fred isn’t the brightest – he doesn’t try to extort, he just just wants revenge, without a promotion!
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David Niven, champ at walking normally like a normal person
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I do like his Dad. Kind of a doofus, but caring.
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So, I guess David slept on it and decided he was okay hanging out with Ginger even if she has a baby.
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Love the competitive mother. Some things never change
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7 months Filmikudhi!
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Yes! We did well with our guessing!
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They are so cute and in love.
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Beginning stages of interest. I assume they’ll be married in 20 minutes but still I wouldn’t call it love yet.
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I’ve seen Charles Coburn in a million movies in so many different genres and he’s always good
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If it was my top boss I would let him hold him, but a random old man, oh hell no!
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Also, her boyfriend’s Dad!
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Oh Charles Coburn! I do appreciate that he continues the string of non-judgementalness.
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Ginger figured it out first! love it!
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Oh come on, the butler already knows everything! Just talk in front of him!
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And this is when you realize all babies look like Charles Coburn.
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And now David protesting “That is not my baby.” Love the parallel.
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That’s why it’s so gooood! I love it it’s structured so well.
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Don’t be a cancer!
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I think it was “a cad, sir” – but maybe that’s my British ears!
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you are probably right – cancer is pretty harsh, but so much more of an insult!
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I do ADORE the grumpy grandfather!
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oh oh oh, maybe the kid IS his?!? He is a playboy after all.
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Ginger really should have gotten more information from the foundling home abandoner lady.
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You know that’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of that.
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Oooo, ginger nailed that line. He better go, or he really is a cad.
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Good for you, Jerome Weiss!!!!
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