A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The first must-see film of the year.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher who were married at the time co-star in this romantic comedy film with bursts of singing and dancing.Debbie is a salesgirl that gets fired and comes upon a baby on a stoop and picks it up. Everyone assumes the baby is hers and that she is trying to give it up. No one will listen.. But fortune smiles her way and she receives her job back and begins falling for one of her bosses.More assumptions are made and his father believes the baby is his grandson. What to do... Fall in love, get married, sing and dance...Light hearted film with all the typical trappings that will make you smile and sigh!

I love musicals and had never heard of this one. After watching some of it. I no longer wonder why.I love Debbie Reynolds but even she can't improve this film.The film begins with a terrible song and singer, and then Debbie and an odd sounding woman - who I thought at first was Lauren Bacall - start singing and it's dreadful! I've heard of Eddie Fisher but this is the first film of his I've seen.. He's not a natural, his acting is poor, really poor. It seems as though his lines are stuck near the camera. The songs aren't good and his singing is dreadful.Unlike Singing in the Rain, Guys and Dolls etc this film is very dated. This a gift but its off to the charity shop.

Glossy and tuneful, if terribly contrived, remake of a just-adequate Ginger Rogers comedy vehicle from 1939 ("Bachelor Mother", itself a reworking of "Little Mother" from 1935). Salesgirl, fired at Christmastime from her department store job for 'over-selling', finds an abandoned baby on the steps outside a foundlings home but can't get anyone to believe the child isn't really hers. The spotlight this time is equally on Debbie Reynolds (doing sprightly, decent work as the bachelor mother) and her then-husband Eddie Fisher (leering at the camera while playing a singing junior-executive). Supporting roles are colorfully filled, production and song numbers are decent, though the script lands us smack in the middle of 101 'risque' misunderstandings (she has a baby but not a husband?! And who's the father?). Worth-seeing for Debbie, who sings and dances--and rolls her eyes with expert exaggeration when it's time to change a diaper. **1/2 from ****

During the merry Christmas season, perky department store salesgirl Debbie Reynolds (as Polly Parish) is fired because so many of her customers return their ware. She passes an orphanage and picks up a cute baby. Everyone assumes Ms. Reynolds is the baby's mother. This helps Reynolds get her job back, from singing store owner's son Eddie Fisher (as Dan Merlin), who also gives Reynolds a raise. Soon, the handsome crooner is harmonizing with the cute clerk. This musical re-make of "Bachelor Mother" (1939) is fairly well-suited to the real-life married couple, who simultaneously produced their own "Bundle of Joy" (Carrie Fisher)...A major recording star upon the film's release, Mr. Fisher was so popular he survived the initial onslaught of "rock and roll" - but was about to fall. Fisher last hit the "Top Ten" in 1956. It didn't help that "Bundle of Joy" was lacking in hit single material, with Fisher's "Some Day Soon" barely cracking the record charts in early 1957. Reynolds was a much better actress, and reached her greatest popularity after she and Fisher divorced. Unfortunately, this is it for the popular twosome's musical comedy film career. They look good and sing sweetly together - their "Lullaby in Blue" sung to their "Pretty Baby" was brimming with potential.******** Bundle of Joy (12/12/56) Norman Taurog ~ Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Tommy Noonan, Adolphe Menjou