MARRIED BACHELOR
(M.G.M.)
HE state of bachelordom, especially in its more unusual forms, has been a fruitful source of inspiration to Hollywood, introducing us at
various times to bachelor mothers, bachelor fathers, bachelor girls, bachelor wives, and bachelor husbands. So far as I know, only bachelors of arts have been overlooked, probably because they are usually, thought not necessarily, quite respectable and to Hollywood therefore seem dull. Not, of course, that there is anything actually disreputable about most of these bachelor mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands; in general the idea is that "bachelor" is a discourtesy title only and that, though, the fact may have to be kept hidden, the state of matrimony really exists all the time. Yet such is human nature that it seems to help a film at the box-office to be given a name which suggests, suggestively, that somebody is getting away with the best of two worlds. Hence presumably Married Bachelor, a lively little comedy which treads the well-worn path of marital misunderstanding with delicacy and some sense of direction. It is a bachelor husband (Robert Young) who is the subject of the story: an irresponsible young man (Continued on next page)
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living. by, his wits who finds that the fattest living he has ever known is to be had when ‘he ‘poses as the bachelor authorof'a" best-selling book about marriage. In justice it must be pointed out that he assumes the role under circumstances rather beyond his control (one such circumstance being a sociable but single-minded gangster), but he maintains it with relish. As a result of the masquerade he becomes a desirable object to almost every woman except the one he has married (Ruth Hussey); she has put up with being the wife of a ne’er-do-well; she is not prepared to be the "wife" of a much-lionised bachelor. And the story lasts for as long as it takes the young man to come to his senses. By which I do not mean to suggest that it lasts too long: there are too many bright situations and too many amusing characterisations for that.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 14
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