Movie Reviewed: Bachelor Apartment, starring Irene Dunne and Lowel Sherman
This is a wonderful comedy about a rich playboy played by Lowell Sherman who falls in love with a working girl named Helen Andrews (Irene Dunne.) With much reluctance she accepts the job of a secretary to work for him and then finds herself protecting him from a jealous husband who comes storming into his apartment with a gun. Lowell Sherman plays wonderfully as a smooth seducer with charm and magnetism who befriends several women. Two notables are the sister of Helene Andrews played by Claudia Dell, and a married woman, Agatha Caraway played by the beautiful Mae Murray, the “girl with bee-stung lips.” The content of the movie is quite mature and the Hollywood went ahead in producing these controversial films in the pre-code era. The story is very funny but it also deals with sexuality, teasing, infidelity, rich playboys, the influence of wealth in seducing women, etc. I very much liked the scenes in which Mae Murray appears as she steals the show with witty remarks and making unwelcome advances towards Sherman. The movie is also directed by Lowell Sherman, and written by Walter Ruben and John Lawson. One of the witty dialogues is as follows:
Rollins, Wayne's Butler: [holding up a diamond bracelet] Er, I found this, sir.
Wayne Carter: You find the strangest things in a bachelor's apartment.
Rollins, Wayne's Butler: Do you suppose the lady lost anything else, sir?
Wayne Carter: Well, if she did, she didn't lose it here.
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