''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 Williams (actor), 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.

Plot summary

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 Williams (actor), Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Richard Berney * David Torrence (actor), 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 (actor), 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.

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* * * * 1931 films American black-and-white films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard 1931 drama films American drama films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub