Loading Page

The Bachelor Daddy(1922)

Comedy

Status: Released

Date: 1922-04-29

0 Votes

Time: 1h 10m

One glowing hour crowded with happiness

Overview:

After his mining partner Joe Pelton's death, wealthy bachelor Richard Chester adopts Joe's five young children and takes them East by train. The children are hellions upsetting the calm of the Pullman car en route to New York City, and his home upon arrival. Richard enrolls them all in school except for the youngest. His frosty society fiancée Ethel McVae refuses to have anything to do with the children. After seeing how Richard interacts with his stenographer Sally Lockwood when she helps him nurse the youngest child through a night's illness Ethel breaks the engagement. Richard declares his love for Sally, and they join to raise a family.

Languages: No Language.

Countries:

United States of America

ProductionCompanies:

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Movie: The Bachelor Daddy

Top 10 Billed Cast

Thomas Meighan

Richard Chester

Leatrice Joy

Sally Lockwood

Maude Wayne

Ethel McVae

Adele Farrington

Mrs. McVae

J. Farrell MacDonald

Joe Pelton

Larry Wheat

Charles Henley

Peaches Jackson

Nita

Bruce Guerin

Toodles

Barbara Maier

Barbara Maier

Buddie

Charles De Briac

Charles De Briac

David

HomePage
Overview
After his mining partner Joe Pelton's death, wealthy bachelor Richard Chester adopts Joe's five young children and takes them East by train. The children are hellions upsetting the calm of the Pullman car en route to New York City, and his home upon arrival. Richard enrolls them all in school except for the youngest. His frosty society fiancée Ethel McVae refuses to have anything to do with the children. After seeing how Richard interacts with his stenographer Sally Lockwood when she helps him nurse the youngest child through a night's illness Ethel breaks the engagement. Richard declares his love for Sally, and they join to raise a family.
Release Date
1922-04-29
Average
0
Rating:
0.0 starts
Tagline
One glowing hour crowded with happiness
Genres
Comedy
Languages:
No Language
Keywords
lost film

Similar Movies

A Girl's Desire(en)

1922-09-10

Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.

1922-09-10

Lawless Love(en)

1918-08-23

Vaudeville artist LaBelle Geraldine and her dancing partner, Freddie Montgomery, are stranded in Arizona when their troupe breaks up. In order to raise money, Geraldine orders Freddie to impersonate masked bandit Black Jim so that she may turn him in and collect the $2,000 reward. When the real Black Jim holds up her coach, Geraldine, believing that he is Freddie, boldly pulls out her gun, whereupon the bandit shoots her in the wrist and takes her to his cabin. Later Freddie, too, is captured, but when members of the gang insult Geraldine, he refuses to protect her. Gradually Black Jim falls in love with her, and she comes to admire him so deeply that instead of seizing a chance to escape one night, she returns to warn him of the gang's plot to kill him.

1918-08-23

Just Pretending

Just Pretending(en)

1912-07-05

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea of playing the game on his little sister, Henrietta. He writes a note reading, "I have your children. Put four thousand dollars under the stone on front porch and I will bring them back. They are now hanging by the hair. Blue Beard." He then tells Henrietta to look the other way, and he takes her dolls out of the doll buggy and hides them in the garden. Then he places the note in the rural delivery mailbox at the front gate. A little later a young fellow brings an auto up to the gate and the children plead for a ride. After a little hesitancy he consents and the children are carried away to the park. Mrs. Mills misses the children and finds the note in the mail box. She takes the matter seriously, and gathering a lot of neighbors and a policeman, gives chase to the auto.

1912-07-05

A Prize Package

A Prize Package(en)

1912-08-05

Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young girl, Fannie Fatima. She writes a note on one of the leaves of a book of cigarette papers, declaring she will wed the man who finds it.

1912-08-05

One on Romance

One on Romance(en)

1913-04-14

Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who can rescue her in some romantic way.

1913-04-14

Too Many Cookies(en)

1928-03-11

Too Many Cookies is a comedy short

1928-03-11

The Dream of a Moving Picture Director

The Dream of a Moving Picture Director(en)

1912-06-05

The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl.

1912-06-05

The Widow Casey's Return

The Widow Casey's Return(en)

1912-06-17

Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals.

1912-06-17

The Man from Mexico(en)

1914-11-02

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

1914-11-02

One-to-Three

One-to-Three(en)

1914-02-18

Willie Brace. Harry Bitt and Johnny Argue are three typical hall-room boys. They come up with a scheme to share a dress suit, the trouble comes when they realize that none of them are the same size but they press on anyway.

1914-02-18

A Queer Quarantine

A Queer Quarantine(en)

1914-03-28

Jack Hastings writes a letter to his sweetheart, Kate, to come to his assistance as Count Caesar de Valdez, a Bolivian merchant, is arriving from Europe with three shiploads of rye, and threatens to "bear the market." Upon the Count's arrival he finds a letter from Jack, asking him to his apartment. The Count calls and is held by Jack and Kate under the pretext that the place is a sub-quarantine station. They pretend that the Count is ill, take his temperature and force him to bed. To their great embarrassment the Count tells them that his ships are loaded with rice not rye.

1914-03-28

Three Little Powders

Three Little Powders(en)

1914-05-13

Mrs. Wallace Williams is much given to conversation and, when she and her husband have a word battle, she of course wins out, making her husband exceedingly cross.

1914-05-13

Poor Jake's Demise(en)

1913-08-16

Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.

1913-08-16

A Successful Failure

A Successful Failure(en)

1913-10-01

Ray and Roy Cheep are both in love with the charming manicurist, but each is unaware of his brother's "affairs." The lady, however, encourages both of them. The two boys are hard up, but live in hopes of their rich uncle loosening up with a substantial allowance. Finally the uncle tells them that he will give $1,000 to the one who marries first. They each go off for a license and a minister, but when they arrive at Miss Charmer's house they find her about to go out with uncle. The next day then each receive a check for $1,000, which helps to console them for the loss of the charming lady.

1913-10-01

Fair and Warmer(en)

A comedy of wrong assumptions, misunderstandings and martial mix ups because of jumping to conclusions.

Jilted Janet(en)

1918-02-11

Young Janet Barnes is dumped by her fiancé Ernest Morgan for Suzette Sparks, who comes from a wealthy family. Enraged, Janet sends him a photo of the elaborate and elegant mansion next door, implying that it is actually her home. Ernest replies that he and his new wife want to visit there during their honeymoon.

1918-02-11

The Royal Razz(en)

1924-12-21

A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.

1924-12-21

Let Women Alone(en)

1925-01-04

A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.

1925-01-04

In and Out

In and Out(en)

1914-08-03

Hans and Fritz are two street musicians. Hans plays the flute and Fritz the bass violin. They have great trouble in finding a boarding house where they are congenial with their fellow boarders, and many side-splitting scenes take place.

1914-08-03

Love and Soda

Love and Soda(en)

1914-08-31

The plumber, a powerful fellow, decides to give up his trade and become a soda fountain clerk in order that he may compete with the small, well-dressed clerk, his rival, for the hand of little Miss Moffett.

1914-08-31

The Bachelor Daddy(1922)

One glowing hour crowded with happiness

Movie: The Bachelor Daddy

Top 10 Billed Cast

The Bachelor Daddy

HomePage

Overview

Release Date

Average

Rating:

Tagline

Genres

Languages:

Keywords

Similar Movies