Bill Goodwin

Bee and Reed are two high school sweethearts who run off and get married one weekend after she fools her parents into thinking she's going to an out-of-town basketball game. They move in with her parents and soon discover they are to become parents as well.

Emmy-winner Red Skelton (TV's "The Red Skelton Show") stars in this musical romantic comedy as a love struck Broadway composer who suddenly decides to retire and marry college swim teacher, Esther Williams ("Zigfeld Follies"). Things get delightfully complicated when his greedy producer, Oscar-nominee Basil Rathbone ("The Adventures of Robin Hood," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"), tries to intervene. Directed by the acclaimed George Sidney ("Bye Bye Birdie," "Show Boat," "The Three Musketeers").

Bee and Reed are two high school sweethearts who run off and get married one weekend after she fools her parents into thinking she's going to an out-of-town basketball game. They move in with her parents and soon discover they are to become parents as well.

When Bundle of Joy premiered in 1956, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were the cutest young marrieds in Hollywood, the obvious choice to headline the musical remake of one of the great comedies of the '30s, Bachelor Mother. As the Prince Charming of the piece, Fisher proves that as an actor, he is a pretty good crooner. But Reynolds is warmly appealing in the role originated by Ginger Rogers, playing a salesgirl who picks up a foundling, is mistaken for its unwed mother and must keep up the charade - baby and all - to keep her job. Coincidentally, Reynolds discovered she was pregnant before filming began. In true trouper fashion, she was still hoofing up a storm on the soundstage when she was seven months along.