Father Is a Bachelor

WANTED: A MOTHER for five kids. Any girl who accepts is crazy, but so am I. --- Johnny

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.

Comedy Family

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)

Warren Farlow

(April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow))

Wayne A. Farlow

(April Chalotte (as Wayne Farlow))

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))

Dooley Wilson

(Blue (uncredited))

Hank Worden

(Finnegan (uncredited))