Beware of Bachelors

{{Infobox film

| name = Beware of Bachelors

| image = Beware of bachelors lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Roy Del Ruth

| producer =

| writer = Robert Lord

| screenplay = Joseph Jackson

| story =

| based_on = {{based on|"Beware of Bachelors"|"Mark Canfield"}} (Darryl F. Zanuck)

| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| music =

| cinematography = Norbert Brodine
Frank Kesson

| editing = Ralph Dawson

| studio = Warner Bros.

| distributor = Warner Bros.

| released = {{Film date|1928|10|27|U.S.}}

| runtime = 64 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Sound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

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Beware of Bachelors is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-code comedy drama film produced and released by Warner Bros., and directed by Roy Del Ruth. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The movie stars Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Margaret Livingston, Clyde Cook, and George Beranger. The film was based on a short story by Mark Canfield (an alias for Darryl F. Zanuck).[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BewareOfBachelors1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: Beware of Bachelors] at silentera.com[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2830 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Beware of Bachelors]

Plot

A young doctor (William Collier Jr.) is accused by his pretty wife (Audrey Ferris) of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients (Margaret Livingston) when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decide to have one herself with a perfumer, played by George Beranger. Wife and husband make up but they soon quarrel once again when the jealous wife finds her husband at a cafe with Livingston. Ferris decides to leave her husband and starts going out with Beranger to wild parties. Eventually, Ferris decides that she truly loves Collier and can't live without him. They are reconciled and Ferris returns to her husband.

Cast

Audrey Ferris as May, the wife
William Collier Jr. as Ed, the husband
Clyde Cook as Joe Babbitt
George Beranger as Claude de Brie
Dave Morris as Detective
Margaret Livingston as Miss Pfeffer, the vamp

Preservation status

A 35mm copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual ConservationCatalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 15, c.1978 by the American Film Institute in Washington, D.C., and a 16mm copy survives at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3719/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Beware of Bachelors] (entry needs updating to show LOC holding)