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Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 American pre-Code RKO comedy/romance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman as a womanizing playboy who falls in love with Irene Dunne's honest working girl. 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 (a former silent film star, who was attempting to make a come-back in talkies), Norman Kerry and Ivan Lebedeff.
Original Release
04/15/1931
US Release
04/15/1931
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lowell Sherman | Wayne Carter |
Irene Dunne | Helene Andrews |
Mae Murray | Mrs. Agatha Carraway |
Norman Kerry | Lee Graham |
Claudia Dell | Lita Andrews |
Ivan Lebedeff | Pedro De Maneau / Pedro 'Pete' De Maneau |
Noel Francis | Janet |
Purnell Pratt | Herb Carraway / Herbert 'Herb' Carraway |
Charles Coleman | Rollins / Rollins, Wayne's Butler |
Kitty Kelly | Miss Clark / Miss Clark, First Girl in Ladies Room |
Directors
Writers
John Howard Lawson, J. Walter Ruben
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lowell Sherman | Wayne Carter |
Irene Dunne | Helene Andrews |
Mae Murray | Mrs. Agatha Carraway |
Norman Kerry | Lee Graham |
Claudia Dell | Lita Andrews |
Ivan Lebedeff | Pedro De Maneau / Pedro 'Pete' De Maneau |
Noel Francis | Janet |
Purnell Pratt | Herb Carraway / Herbert 'Herb' Carraway |
Charles Coleman | Rollins / Rollins, Wayne's Butler |
Kitty Kelly | Miss Clark / Miss Clark, First Girl in Ladies Room |
Bess Flowers | Charlotte |
Roberta Gale | Third Girl in Ladies Room |
Carl Gerard | Undetermined Secondary Role |
Arthur Housman | Tippler in Bed |
Arline Judge | Second Girl in Ladies Room |
Lee Phelps | Traffic Cop |
Florence Roberts | Mrs. Halloran |
Fred Santley | Jim - Man Under the Bed |
Boston Winston | Brown |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Henry Hobart | Producer |
William LeBaron | Producer |