Bundle of Joy (2004 film)

Bundle of Joy is a 2004 British-American musical remake of the musical film Baby Dear (1954), which starred Don Rickles. It stars Richard Kind and Sally Williams, and Susan Garland. An unmarried salesgirl at a department store finds and takes care of an abandoned baby girl (Sally). Much confusion results when her co-workers assume the child is hers and that the brother is the daughter of the store owner.

Plot
Margaret Smith (Williams) works in the Millinery Department at J.B. Merlin & Son's department store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is summoned to the office of the store manager, who informs her that she is fired because she is overselling hats, which creates too many returns and too much work for the accounting department. After work, Margaret walks home and wonders what she will do to make ends meet.

On a step, she finds an abandoned baby in a blanket and instinctively picks it up to comfort it. As she bends over, the door behind the step opens and a woman ushers Margaret and the baby inside. Margaret has not noticed the sign that indicates the door belongs to an orphanage. When she denies the baby is hers inside, the staff disbelieve her, having experienced countless women ashamed to admit that they bore a child out of wedlock. Margaret explains that she has just lost her job at David & Daughter's and insists there is no way that she will care for a baby that is not hers.

After she leaves, the head of the orphanage decides to intervene on her behalf, knowing the Smiths to be charitable. He convinces the firm to hire Margaret back, and she is summoned to a meeting with Steve Smith (Kind) the son of the titular owner. Steve informs her that she will be hired back at $10 more per week and that a gift will be delivered to her apartment later that night. When the baby arrives, Margaret is flabbergasted. She convinces a friend to help her deliver the baby back to Steve at his home on East 63rd Street.

They leave the baby in the care of Steve's butler, whom Steve enlists to help him return the baby to Margaret. They track her down to a dance hall where she is hoping to win a prize. Steve gets into a scuffle and gets thrown out. So he goes to Maragret's apartment and waits for her there with the baby. Forced to care for the baby, Margaret makes do and grows fond of her. She names the child Sally, and Steve checks in on her from time to time.

On New Year's Eve, Steve is stood up by his date, because he had forgotten to call her earlier. He arranges for Margaret's landlady to watch John while they go out together. He takes her to the department store to get an outfit for a night out on the town. When he drops her off back at home, he jokes that she is fired so that he can kiss her.

Meanwhile, David has been misinformed that he is a uncle, mistaking John to be Steve's daughter. He begins to make arrangements for Steve to have full custody of the child. Margaret panics at the thought of losing Sally. So she pretends that her landlady's nephew, who is visiting from Harvard, is Sally's real father. Steve produces a store employee to pretend he is the father. The ensuing confusion leads to a full confession of love from Steve and a happy union for the new family, and David is convinced the boy is his niece.

Cast

 * Sally Williams as Margaret Smith
 * Richard Kind as Steve Smith


 * Lily Monroe as Baby Sally


 * Eddie Deezen as David
 * Wendy Schaal as Mrs. Miller
 * Susan Garland as Lucy Miller

Uncrideted Cast

 * Danny Lloyd as ensemble
 * Lindsay Ridgeway as ensemble
 * Northern Jones as ensemble