Bachelor Apartment

Bachelor Apartment (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
76 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1931 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lowell Sherman

Written By:
John Howard Lawson
J. Walter Ruben

Actors:
Lowell Sherman ..... Wayne Carter
Irene Dunne ..... Helene Andrews
Mae Murray ..... Mrs. Agatha Carraway
Ivan Lebedeff ..... Pedro 'Pete' De Maneau
Norman Kerry ..... Lee Graham
Noel Francis ..... Janet
Claudia Dell ..... Lita Andrews
Purnell Pratt ..... Herbert 'Herb' Carraway
Kitty Kelly ..... Miss Clark, First Girl in Ladies Room
Charles Coleman ..... Rollins, Wayne's Butler

Synopsis:

A typical pre-code era comedy, Bachelor Apartment was the creation of its leading man, silent screen matinee-idol Lowell Sherman. He plays Wayne Carter, a Park Avenue roué, whose dalliances with a series of women are beginning to catch up with him. Enter a brunette and rather drab Irene Dunne searching for her wayward sister (Claudia Dell). Sherman falls like a ton of bricks for the no-nonsense and seemingly unresponsive Dunne, whom he hires as his executive secretary. For unexplained reasons, Dunne falls in love with her whimsical boss as well and after Sherman shows signs of shaping up, they embrace for a happy ending. Daring in its day, Bachelor Apartment is not really worth a second look except for a next-to-final glimpse of silent screen femme fatale Mae Murray. Playing Sherman's most ardent conquest -- who, as the suave playboy explains, "might commit a sin but never a faux pas" -- Murray has to be seen to be believed. Valiantly attempting to display her trademark bee-stung countenance while at the same time deliver a series of hoary lines, the still svelte Murray -- who is introduced to the strains of an ersatz Merry Widow Waltz lest we forgot -- offers an overripe performance that all but ended her screen career. Sherman used her once more -- in High Stakes, another frothy comedy -- but the aging Murray was obviously not talkie material.

Womanizing businessman Wayne Carter is hardly a looker, but he's got them dollar bills. Loads of them. The only woman in New York City left unimpressed by his millions is, of all people, the unemployed Helene Andrews.

Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 romance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman as a womanizing playboy who falls in love with Irene Dunne's character.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 29 August, 2012.

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