Bachelor Flat

Bachelor Flat (1961)

Just how many luscious babes is one bachelor allowed to accumulate?

Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.

Date of release
1961-12-07
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Frank Tashlin

Casting

Interesting facts

Bachelor Flat is a 1962 American DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, and Celeste Holm. Filmed in CinemaScope in Malibu, California, the film is a revised version of Tashlin's own Susan Slept Here (1954).

Production

In October 1960, 20th Century Fox's Robert Goldstein announced he had bought the screen rights to a British stage comedy, Libby by Budd Grossman. The play had been staged in London the previous year. Grossman would write the script, Jack Cummings would produce, and Frank Tashlin would direct. The plot was about an English professor at Hunter College who got involved with a group of 17 year olds on the loose from boarding school.

Eventually the action was relocated to Malibu, where the film was shot starting April 1961. Lead roles were given to Fox contract stars Richard Beymer and Tuesday Weld, who had just supported another older star, Bing Crosby, in High Time. Gene Tierney was announced for the part of Weld's mother but Celeste Holm ended up playing it.

In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Tashlin said he included the dachshund as a satire on CinemaScope due to the dog's shape.

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