Ginger Rogers stars with David Niven in a nondancing role that shows off her talent as a comic actress in this story of a shopgirl who finds an abandoned baby and becomes a Bachelor Mother. When Polly Parish discovers a foundling, she quickly bonds with the helpless baby and adopts him. The only problem is that everyone believes she is the baby's biological mother. In danger of acquiring a reputation as a fallen woman, her employer dispatches his dapper son, David Merlin (David Niven), to safeguard Polly's morals in this charming romantic comedy.