Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Edgar Soberon Torchia Besides the open way sex and social climbing are treated (among heterosexual characters) and the explicit references to marijuana and cocaine in the previous years to the Hays Code enforcement in American cinema, «Bachelor Apartment» is interesting for it was written by open leftist playwright John Howard Lawson, a Jewish- American who would become a member of the US Communist Party, president of the west wing of the Writers Guilds of America and one of the "Hollywood Ten" who were imprisoned and black-listed during the anti-communist pursuits of Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. However there is not much here to consider as progressive, daring or a menace to the status quo, apart from the female leading role, a working class woman whose dignity and self-respect (especially as played by Irene Dunne) set her apart from the other women in the movie. Lawson later stated that there was no adaptation of his script and it was shot as he had written it, so in the end the movie follows the formula of the romantic comedy, and reinforces the traditional gender and social roles of both men and women. So it is no wonder that Lawson decided to go South and learn a bit about social classes in 1934, after being accused by his fellow party members that he had "a lack of ideological and political commitment" and wrote "adolescent works that lacked moral fiber or clear ideas". But for its historical value, fast rhythm and a couple of enjoyable characterizations (by Mae Murray, a gentler version of Mae West, and Charles Coleman as the butler, with a curious scene full of innuendo in his exchange with a messenger) «Bachelor Apartment» is worth a look.

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre Lowell Sherman had some success as an actor and some success as a director without ever becoming a major name in either speciality: the most interesting thing (but one) about 'Bachelor Apartment' is that he both directed and starred in it. As a screen personality, Sherman was probably the nearest thing to George Sanders before Sanders came along: Sherman typically played a wealthy cad who seduced women solely for his own pleasure, with no concern for their welfare. In at least one movie, 'You Never Know Women', Sanders's character is perfectly willing to commit rape.As I've noted in a previous IMDb review, I find Sherman implausible in such roles. I know almost nothing about his offscreen life (and I don't much want to know), but on the screen he tends to come across (to me, at least) as if he is gay ... in that word's modern sense. Sherman nearly always played skirt-chasers, yet I invariably find him unbelievable as a playboy. He was a talented actor, yet seemed much more believable when playing characters who were epicene (he was brilliant in 'What Price Hollywood?') or men whose sexuality was irrelevant to the plot (as in 'Mammy'). In 'Bachelor Apartment', Sherman portrays Wayne Carter, a millionaire businessman who's also a playboy ... so credibility flies out the window.Carter's only roommate is his live-in butler, very well-played by Charles Coleman ... but we understand that a vast series of women have spent their nights (not all at the same go, mind you) alongside Carter in his bed.I'd mentioned the most interesting thing but one about this movie. Here's the MOST interesting thing about it: the plot line of 'Bachelor Apartment' seems to anticipate two much better works, namely 'My Sister Eileen' and 'Neptune's Daughter' (the latter an MGM musical that had a much neater plot than usual for MGM musicals). Along to New York City come two small-town sisters: the older one level-headed, the younger one much prettier and flirty with it. (Did anybody mention Ruth McKinney and her sister Eileen?) The younger one (well-played by the obscure Claudia Dell) meets the millionaire's butler and mistakenly believes (for contrived reasons) that the butler is the millionaire himself. When protective older sister Irene Dunne learns that her younger sister is involved with millionaire Carter (actually the butler), she stomps into Carter's executive suite to straighten him out. For once genuinely innocent of womanising, Carter doesn't know anything about it ... yet he finds himself attracted to Dunne, and he gets ready to award her the next notch on his bedpost.VERY OBVIOUS SPOILER. It's simultaneously bang obvious and wildly implausible what's going to happen, yet it happens anyway. Carter, planning to seduce Dunne, ends up sincerely falling in love with her ... and (get this, please) he actually gives up his tom-catting to marry her and settle down! Oh, pull the other one.I had more trouble believing this movie than I did with several other Lowell Sherman vehicles. Irene Done has never dunne (I mean Irene Dunne has never done) a thing for me; I've never found her especially attractive nor especially sexy, and I simply couldn't believe that this millionaire playboy would chuck his sybaritic life for this particular woman. In this movie, Irene Dunne wears a hairstyle that renders her even more unattractive than usual. Further, I had the same credibility issue here that I do with most other movies in which a working-class heroine lands a wealthy husband: we're meant to believe that she sincerely loves him, yet she's fully aware that the huge bulge in his trousers is his bank balance. Since the husband is a playboy who has habitually exploited women, it's hard to believe that he never wonders if perhaps he is being exploited in turn by a gold-digger.On the positive side, 'Bachelor Apartment' has one of those great old-movie casts with several interesting performers in supporting roles. Claudia Dell and Charles Coleman, both obscure, are excellent here. Perennial dress extra Bess Flowers has a larger role than usual here. Less favourably, Arthur Housman, in the role of a drunk (what a stretch!), does absolutely nothing here that he didn't do better and funnier while cast as a drunk in fifty other movies. Norman Kerry, cast in a supporting role in this early talkie, proves why his stardom ended in silent movies.'Bachelor Apartment' is well-made; Lowell Sherman was an under-rated director, and might conceivably have gone on to greater success behind the camera after he became too old to carry on in skirt-chaser roles. (He died suddenly of pneumonia, aged only 49.) Any film with a Max Steiner score and production by William LeBaron is worthy of attention. When the clichés settle, my rating for this movie is just 6 out of 10.

drednm Lowell Sherman was a star and director of silent films and talkies until his death in 1934. His best-remembered films are probably Way Down East (1920) and What Price Hollywood? (1932). In Bachelor Apartment he stars as a rich New York playboy who seems to have an endless parade of women going through his apartment. At one point he tells is butler (Charles Coleman) that he is "going hunting" and returns with a silly woman (Noel Francis) with whom he dallies until prim Irene Dunne comes hunting for her sister. Funny and risqué, this film deals rather openly about sexuality, teasing, infidelity, and "getting what you want." Sherman and Dunne are terrific as the sparring boss and steno, but Mae Murray bizarrely steals the several scenes she is in. Murray, a silent-film queen of the teens and 20s, made only 3 talkies. At age 40, she's still trying to be the sex goddess and comes off as being unlikely and unlikable. Murray affects a baby lisp and vamps and saunters about. She looks pretty good but she seems very otherworldly.Claudia Dell is annoying as the dumb sister, Ivan Lebedeff plays a dancer, Norman Kerry (also a silent star) plays a producer, Bess Flowers is the woman who lost her necklace, Lee Phelps is the cop, and Arline Judge is one of the secretaries.Dunne was always good, and Sherman has a terrific comic roue act that always borders on being quite gay. But watch him closely in this film (which he also directed) and study his comic timing and the pacing of his comebacks. The dialog is snappy and suggestive. Coleman and Francis are also very good indeed.Lowell Sherman, who also directed Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory) is long forgotten but certainly deserves to be remembered as a wonderful actor and fine director.

David (Handlinghandel) Another of the movies I would not think of watching but for Irene Dunne, playing anything but swank comedy here. It consists of basically two types of characters. One is ladies in lingerie or revealing gowns. (Dunne wears neither but at one point we see her in her boss's bathrobe.) The other is gentlemen who appear to prefer other gentlemen.One of these is its director and star, Lowell Sherman. He had a solid hand as a director and is likable as a performer. But he's a little hard to buy as a ladies' man. And in one scene, he goes to a friend's apartment, demanding to see who's in the bedroom. Instead of the woman he's looking for, two men are there. They're fully clothed and maybe the audience at the time thought they were sleeping off hangovers. Maybe that's what the script meant, for all I know. But it's not the way they come across in the context of the movie.The print I saw was fuzzy but it's chic and entertaining -- dated but also risqué.