The Small Bachelor is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and written by John B. Clymer, Rex Taylor and Walter Anthony.

[5] As described in a film magazine,[6] Finch, a wealthy but bashful young artist, falls in love with Molly Waddington and follows her around for several days without having the courage to speak to her.

There he sees Molly's mother, a socially ambitious matron, laying down the law to her husband because he insists on reading wild west novels and pretends that he is a death-defying cowboy.

The day of the wedding arrives and, just as the ceremony is about to be performed, a notorious woman named Fanny steps up and claims that Finch is her husband.

Finch returns to his roof garden bungalow where he finds Fanny, who tells him that she is really engaged to his valet Mullett and had broken up the wedding at the instigation of Mrs. Waddington.