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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Bashful Bachelor
| image = Chester_Lauck.png
| caption = Chester Lauck in the film
| director = Malcolm St. Clair
Charles Kerr (assistant)
| producer = Jack William Votion
| writer = Chester Lauck (story) and
Norris Goff (story)
Chandler Sprague (screenplay)
| cinematography = Paul Ivano
| editing = W. Duncan Mansfield
| distributor = RKO Pictures
| released =
| runtime = 78 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $165,000 (estimated)
| gross = $675,000 (USA)
}}
'The Bashful Bachelor' is a 1942 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair. It is the second of seven films based on the Lum and Abner radio series created by and starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff.
Plot
Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse. And because Lum doesn't have the guts to approach the woman he is in love with, Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts), and propose to her once and for all, he lays a complex scheme to impress her in a fake "rescue" mission. He fails tremendously in this mission, and nearly gets everyone killed in doing so. However, he doesn't give up, but tries again, and finally succeeds in impressing her. His problems continue when his proposal, to be delivered to Geraldine by his partner Abner, is instead delivered to a very prone bachelorette, Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy). She jumps at the possibility of marrying Lum, and the game is afoot. Lum doesn't get out of trouble until the town sheriff (Irving Bacon) finds widow Widder's disappeared husband.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033379/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl 'The Bashful Bachelor'details], imdb.com; accessed September 23, 2015.
Cast
*Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards
*Norris Goff as Abner Peabody
*ZaSu Pitts as Geraldine
*Grady Sutton as Cedric Wiehunt
*Oscar O'Shea as Squire Skimp
*Louise Currie as Marjorie
*Constance Purdy as Widder Abernathy
*Irving Bacon as Sheriff / Fire Chief
*Earle Hodgins as Joseph Abernathy
*Benny Rubin as Pitch Man
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