When talking of his days at MGM Robert Young said he got the hand me down parts from Franchot Tone who got the hand me downs from Robert Montgomery. Married Bachelor must have been offered to Montgomery and/or Tone who ran for the hills.
What were asked to believe here is that Felix Bressart is just way too eccentric to accept royalties from a best seller he's written on marriage from a bachelor's point of view. So Young who is forever trying to get rich quick went into the bookmaking business with Sam Levene. Then when a longshot comes in they haven't got the cash to cover a bet Sheldon Leonard laid down.
I don't know about you, but if I was Ruth Hussey and a character like Leonard came around looking for his dough I'd have given hubby the walking papers then and there and never looked back. Instead she waits around to see how things develop.
So with Young fronting for Bressart he becomes a celebrity with a radio program and lectures. And he has to pretend he's a bachelor so Hussey gets put on the shelf. To make matters worse Hussey meets Lee Bowman, her husband's publisher and he falls for her.
Let's face it boys and girls we are talking fraud here. This whole business is a matter for law enforcement not laughs.
Married Bachelor lays a big old ostrich egg in the comedy department.