The Bachelor Father

Infobox Film
name = The Bachelor Father


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caption = Screenshot
director = Robert Z. Leonard
producer = Marion Davies, Robert Z. Leonard
writer = Edward Childs Carpenter (play), Laurence E. Johnson
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starring = Marion Davies
music =
cinematography = Oliver T. Marsh
editing = Harry Reynolds
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 10 January 1931
runtime = 90 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0021633

"The Bachelor Father " is a 1931 American MGM drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Marion Davies and Ralph Forbes and C. Aubrey Smith

Plot

Ageing English bachelor Sir Basil Winterton (C. Aubrey Smith) suddenly has his hands full when his three grown (illegitimate) children return. Tony (Marion Davies) is a sharp tongued New Yorker, Maria is an aspiring opera singer and Ray Milland is the son.

Tony and Basil grow fond of each other, as do Tony and Ashley, but Sir Basil's Lawyer strikes when Tony learns that she is not really the daughter of Sir Basil. Sir Basil soon learns of the mistake and confronts Tony. She leaves Basil's estate and on flying back to the United States her plane crashes on take-off as Sir Basil reads a telegram that Tony sent before she boarded the plane. It explained that she loved him very much and she was sorry for what had happened.

Luckily Tony has survived the disaster and is carried into Sir Basil's living room to rest by Ashley. The film ends happily with Sir Basil promising to adopt Tony and Ashley promising to make her his wife.

Cast

*Marion Davies ... Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg
*Ralph Forbes ... John Ashley
*C. Aubrey Smith ... Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton
*Ray Milland ... Geoffrey Trent
*Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Richard 'Dick' Berney (as Guinn Williams)
*David Torrence ... Doctor Frank 'Mac' MacDonald
*Doris Lloyd... Mrs. Julia Webb
*Edgar Norton... Bolton, the Second Butler
*Nina Quartero ... Maria Credaro (as Nena Quartero)
*Halliwell Hobbes ... Larkin, the Butler
*Elizabeth Murray ... Mrs. 'Aunt Molly' Berney
*James Gordon... Mr. Carson Creswell, a Lawyer
*Harry Allen ... Harry, the First Airplane Mechanic (uncredited)
*Rina De Liguoro... Hortense (uncredited)

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0021633|title= The Bachelor Father
* [http://www.decofilms.com/mariondavies/films/bachelorfather.htm Deco films.com]