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 "Big Boy" Williams.

[1] 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.

Sir Basil Algernon Winterton is an elderly, never-married baronet who decides to bring together his three illegitimate children, scattered around the world, on a whim.

Sir Basil, hearing about Tony's recklessness, realizes how much he cares for her and dispatches John to try to stop her.

Tony solves the problem by saying she will be Sir Basil's daughter during the day and John's wife at night.