Bachelor Apartment

Bachelor Apartment (1931)

SUAVE..SILKED...GAYLY HUMOROUS COMEDY

A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.

Date of release
1931-04-15
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Lowell Sherman

Casting

Interesting facts

Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 American pre-Code romance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman as a bachelor/playboy, Wayne Carter, who falls in love with Irene Dunne's honest working girl, Helene Andrews. The credits for the film, and all sources from that time show that the film was based on a story by New York playwright John Howard Lawson, the screenplay was adapted by J. Walter Ruben. However, Lawson would later claim that the final screenplay had not been altered from what he had originally written. The cast features Mae Murray, Norman Kerry and Ivan Lebedeff.

Production

Bachelor Apartment was the fifth film directed by Lowell Sherman, who directed his first film, a comedy short called Phipps, in 1929. The combination of actor and director was highly unusual at the time.

John Howard Lawson, who wrote the story for Bachelor Apartment was a Broadway playwright who had also written some films for MGM, but was primarily interested in writing plays. Out of financial need, he signed with RKO, for a single screenplay, with an option for three more.

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