After a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.After a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.After a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Marie Blake
- Singing Telegram Operator
- (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr.
- Office Boy
- (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
- Scrubwoman
- (uncredited)
Otto Han
- Dexter's Houseboy
- (uncredited)
Robert Lowery
- Flirty Architect
- (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLinda Darnell was 16 when she played the role of Tyrone Power's wife. He was 25.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel (1999)
- SoundtracksMoonlight Serenade
(1939) (uncredited)
Music by Glenn Miller
Lyrics by Mitchell Parish
Background music at the Sheepshead Bay restaurant
Featured review
"Belle de jour," 25 years earlier and under the Code
A light-as-air confection, with very dark overtones. The very young, fresh-faced Linda Darnell is stood up on their second anniversary by husband Tyrone Power. The always delightful Binnie Barnes, her poisonous often-divorced friend Blanche says he's fooling around. Darnell refuses to believe it.
But believe it she must as evidence piles up. So, under the guide of shopping all day, she takes a job as a secretary. Her goal: finding out what about their secretaries appeals to men. (It must be noted that a husband willing to accept five-day-a-week, all-day shopping expeditions goes against many conventions.) Ushered in by goofy but knowing receptionist Joan David -- THE Joan Davis, that divine comedienne here in an early, rather small role -- she interviews for a job. Her boss is Warren William, at his slimiest. He comes on to her like nobody's business, his own wife notwithstanding.
Darnell is determined to keep working rather than depend on Power's money and to pursue her plan: What makes these guys fall for these girls? William and Power are business associates and they all, secretaries and his wife included, end up at a nightclub. She is very firm with Power but in the end makes up with him.
It's an early feminist movie. And in its own gentle way it's a subversive one, too. Unlike Catherine Deneuve in "Belle de jour," she does not become a call girl. But she scandalizes her chauvinistic, narrow-minded husband by becoming a working woman -- and a very smart one at that.
But believe it she must as evidence piles up. So, under the guide of shopping all day, she takes a job as a secretary. Her goal: finding out what about their secretaries appeals to men. (It must be noted that a husband willing to accept five-day-a-week, all-day shopping expeditions goes against many conventions.) Ushered in by goofy but knowing receptionist Joan David -- THE Joan Davis, that divine comedienne here in an early, rather small role -- she interviews for a job. Her boss is Warren William, at his slimiest. He comes on to her like nobody's business, his own wife notwithstanding.
Darnell is determined to keep working rather than depend on Power's money and to pursue her plan: What makes these guys fall for these girls? William and Power are business associates and they all, secretaries and his wife included, end up at a nightclub. She is very firm with Power but in the end makes up with him.
It's an early feminist movie. And in its own gentle way it's a subversive one, too. Unlike Catherine Deneuve in "Belle de jour," she does not become a call girl. But she scandalizes her chauvinistic, narrow-minded husband by becoming a working woman -- and a very smart one at that.
- Handlinghandel
- Jul 22, 2005
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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