Sweet young Betty Miller (Norma Moore) moves from a small town farming community to work in a big department store in Los Angeles, where she falls into the clutches of her co-worker, smooth super-cad Don Bigelow (future Man From U.N.C.L.E star Robert Vaughn), who induces her to take part in a failed stick-up. Betty ends up pregnant and abandoned.
After visiting a drunken abortionist (Timothy Carey), she decides to give the baby up for adoption and ends up in a home for unmarried mothers but has a change of heart. The adoption procedure shown in the film is ridiculous.
The climax – with a minister and his wife taking in Betty and her baby – is a classic slice of melodrama from a master of the genre, Walter Doniger, who was the director of TV’s Peyton Place.
Unwed Mother was released in parts of the US on a double bill with Joy Ride (1958).
Betty Miller
Norma Moore Don Bigelow
Robert Vaughn Diana
Diana Darrin Gertie
Billie Bird Mrs Horton
Jeanne Cooper Ben
Ron Hargrave Linda
Kathleen Hughes Mr Paully
Sam Buffington Mrs Miller
Claire Carleton Louella
Colette Jackson Doctor
Timothy Carey Elsie
Eve McVeagh Probation Officer Ray Curtis
Ken Lynch Mrs Paully
Dorothy Adams Mary Ellen
Joan Lora Reverend Benton
Ralph Gamble
Director
Walter Doniger
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Unwed Mother was released in parts of the US on a double bill with Joy Ride (1958).
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