The Bachelor Father is a 1931 American pre-Code MGM comedy drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies and featuring Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Ray Milland and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was based on a same-titled play by Edward Childs Carpenter, with Smith re-creating his role from the Broadway production. The plot centers around a stuffy British nobleman whose three grown (and illegitimate) children suddenly arrive at his estate and decide to move in with him.

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The Bachelor Father
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Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Written by	Laurence E. Johnson Frances Marion (uncredited)
Based on	"The Bachelor Father" 1928 play by Edward Childs Carpenter
Produced by	Marion Davies, Robert Z. Leonard
Starring	Marion Davies
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	Harry Reynolds
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	January 10, 1931 (1931-01-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cast (in credits order)

• Marion Davies as Antoinette Flagg
• Ralph Forbes as John Ashley
• C. Aubrey Smith as Sir Basil Algernon Winterton
• Ray Milland as Geoffrey Trent
• Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Richard Berney
• David Torrence as Dr Frank MacDonald
• Doris Lloyd as Mrs Julia Webb
• Edgar Norton as Bolton, The Second Butler
• Nina Quartero as Maria Credaro
• Halliwell Hobbes as Larkin, The Butler
• James Gordon as Carson Creswell, a lawyer

Foreign-language version

One foreign-language version was produced by MGM in French and was entitled Le père célibataire. It was released in 1931 and starred Lili Damita.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• The Bachelor Father at IMDb

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