Bachelor Bait

{{short description|1934 film by George Stevens}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Bachelor Bait

| image = Bachelor Bait poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = George Stevens

| story = Edward Halperin
Victor Halperin

| producer = Pandro S. Berman

| screenplay = Glenn Tryon

| starring = Stuart Erwin
Rochelle Hudson
Pert Kelton
"Skeets" Gallagher
Berton Churchill
Grady Sutton
Clarence Wilson
Anne Shirley

| music = Max Steiner

| cinematography = David Abel

| editing = James B. Morley

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1934|07}}

| runtime = 74 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $120,000Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57

| gross = $195,000

}}

Bachelor Bait is a 1934 American comedy film about a man (William Watts) who is fired from his job issuing marriage licenses at city hall because of the actions of a co-worker. He starts a match making business which becomes very successful because of Mr. Watts' ability to find suitable matches for everybody except for himself. Bachelor Bait (originally titled The Great American Harem) was director George Stevens' first feature-length film for RKO, filmed from 30 April to 18 May 1934.His first feature was The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933), for Universal. Marilyn Ann Moss, Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 29; {{ISBN|9780299204303}}