Father Is a Bachelor

Overview

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.

Directed by Norman Foster, Abby Berlin

Top cast

William Holden

Johnny Rutledge

Coleen Gray

Prudence Millett

Mary Jane Saunders

May Chalotte

Charles Winninger

Professor Mordecai Ford

Stuart Erwin

Constable Pudge Barnham

Clinton Sundberg

Plato Cassin

Gary Gray

Jan Chalotte

Sig Ruman

Jericho Schlosser

Billy Gray

Feb Chalotte

Lloyd Corrigan

Judge Millett

Frederic Tozere

Jeffrey Gilland Sr.

Peggy Converse

Genevieve Cassin

Arthur Space

Lucius Staley

W

Warren Farlow

April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)

W

Wayne A. Farlow

April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow)

B

Buddy Clark

Johnny Rutledge (singing voice) (uncredited)

Ruby Dandridge

Lily - the Maid (uncredited)

Tommy Ivo

Jeffrey Gilland Jr. (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard

Townsman (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

White (uncredited)

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