Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 American pre-Code romance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman as a bachelor/playboy, Wayne Carter, who falls in love with Irene Dunne's honest working girl, Helene Andrews.

The cast features Mae Murray (a former silent film star, who was attempting to make a comeback in talkies), Norman Kerry and Ivan Lebedeff.

Helene and Lita Andrews are small town girls who have come to the big city in order to find fame and fortune.

When her husband shows up shortly after, and Agatha hides in the bedroom while the two men have a discussion about marital issues, Helene once again becomes disenchanted with Carter, and resigns her position.

[1][citation needed] John Howard Lawson, who wrote the story for Bachelor Apartment was a Broadway playwright[5] who had also written some films for MGM, but was primarily interested in writing plays.

Starting simply with the lead cast of Sherman and Murray, Lawson devised the story and screenplay of Bachelor Apartment, but did not think much of the experience, or the film: ""Every day's work on Bachelor Apartment reminded me of my 'almost blunted purpose': instead of bringing new life to the theater, I was perpetrating a stale cinematic joke.

In spite of its up-to-date cynicism and zany style, everything about Bachelor Apartment, including its stars, belonged to the Roaring Twenties."

Despite the screen credit given to J. Walter Ruben for adaptation and dialogue, Lawson claimed that the script was filmed as he wrote it.

[8] Mordaunt Hall, of The New York Times, gave the film a somewhat positive review, praising both Lowell and Coleman, as well as several other players, but merely calling Dunne's performance "competent".

"[9] Bachelor Apartment was Irene Dunne's third film, after the now-lost Leathernecking (1930) and 1931's Cimarron, for which she would be nominated for her first Academy Award.