Bachelor Apartment

Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 American PreCode RKO comedyromance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman as a womanizing playboy who falls in love with Irene Dunnes 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 comeback in talkies, Norman Kerry and Ivan Lebedeff.

Helene and Lita Andrews Irene Dunne and Claudia Dell, respectively are small town girls who have come to the big city in order to find fame and fortune. Helene is much more sensible than her younger sister, Lita, who is a bit flighty. Eventually, Lita believes she has a millionaire interested in her, Carter. When she goes to have dinner at his apartment, an alarmed Helene goes to track her down to prevent anything untoward from occurring. However, upon her arrival, she discovers that Lita has really attracted the attention of Carters butler, Rollins Charles Coleman, with whom she is having dinner.Carter is entranced with the sensible, earnest Helene. Discovering she is in need of employment, he offers her a job in his office as a executive secretary. She at first refuses, cautious about his intentions, but in need of work, she eventually relents and accepts the position. Their mutual attraction grows, and Carter is seemingly beginning to give up his libidinous liaisons, until one afternoon when Carter asks her over to his apartment, not on a personal level, but to take some dictation. Again leery, she agrees and meets him at his apartment, and all is going well until the flirtatious Agatha shows up at the apartment. When her husband Purnell Pratt shows up shortly after, and Agatha hides in the bedroom while the two men have a discussion about marital issues, Helene once again becomes disenchanted with Carter, and resigns her position. ........

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