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 | | And although her role in Bachelor Mother was strictly an acting one, Rogers didn't disappoint fans of her musicals. |
 | | Screenwriter Norman Krasna, who adapted the story as Bachelor Mother, was already a master of romantic comedy, and specifically, romantic comedy based on mistaken identity, such as The Richest Girl in the World (1934), in which heiress Miriam Hopkins pretends to be her own secretary. |
 | | Bachelor Mother was playing in London, and he was greeted with posters for the film, calling him "the star who came home to join the RAF." But the publicity made little impact within the venerable men's club Boodles, where Niven was approached by an elderly member one day. |
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