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Wife vs. Secretary
Wife vs. Secretary (or Wife Versus Secretary) is a 1936 American romantic comedy drama film starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. Directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, it was the fifth of six collaborations between Gable and Harlow and the fourth of seven between Gable and Loy. The screenplay was based on the short story of the same title by Faith Baldwin, published in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1935. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna, John Lee Mahin and Alice Duer Miller.
May Robson, George Barbier, Hobart Cavanaugh, and James Stewart appear in support, with Stewart playing the secretary's suitor in one of his first memorable roles.
High-end magazine publisher Van Stanhope and his wife, Linda, are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. They are very much in love, and demonstrate it in every way. However, Van's secretary, the beautiful and bright Helen "Whitey" Wilson, is thought by Van's mother to be too great a temptation to him. Linda refuses to listen to her, or her own friends, as she trusts her husband implicitly, the hallmark of her relationship with him and envy of all others.
Meanwhile, Whitey's beau, Dave, is frustrated with her when Van calls one night during dinner and she once again drops everything to rush off and serve him, any time, any place. When Dave asks her to marry him, she refuses, and buries herself deeper in her work.
Van covets J. D. Underwood's popular weekly to broaden his reader base. To prevent his chief rival from beating him to it, the pursuit is kept top secret - only Whitey is permitted to know.
When Van returns from meeting Underwood and tells Linda the white lie that he has spent the day at his club, Linda accidentally learns that he had not been there but had spent part of it with Whitey (who had merely helped him prepare his sales pitch). At a company skating party, Linda is too sick to skate, but Van and Whitey gleefully crack the whip together. Linda meanwhile gets a misinformed earful from a gabby wife who - clueless who Linda is - plants more seeds of fear and jealousy. On the ride home Van reveals he had turned down a request to promote Whitey elsewhere in the company, explaining she is too valuable to him. Linda pleads with him to assent; he refuses, they quarrel, she strides angry and hurt into their home, and he stomps off the same way for the refuge of his club.
She gives in and calls Van there. Overjoyed, he rushes home into her arms.
Van promises Linda a trip together to the Caribbean, but to preserve the secrecy of his still-pending blockbuster he is vague about a date. His top company rep falls ill, and Van is forced to take his place at a big industry convention in Havana. He knows it will be all work and no play, so refuses Linda's repeated requests to accompany him in lieu of the promised island getaway.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Wife vs. Secretary (or Wife Versus Secretary) is a 1936 American romantic comedy drama film starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. Directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, it was the fifth of six collaborations between Gable and Harlow and the fourth of seven between Gable and Loy. The screenplay was based on the short story of the same title by Faith Baldwin, published in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1935. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna, John Lee Mahin and Alice Duer Miller.
May Robson, George Barbier, Hobart Cavanaugh, and James Stewart appear in support, with Stewart playing the secretary's suitor in one of his first memorable roles.
High-end magazine publisher Van Stanhope and his wife, Linda, are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. They are very much in love, and demonstrate it in every way. However, Van's secretary, the beautiful and bright Helen "Whitey" Wilson, is thought by Van's mother to be too great a temptation to him. Linda refuses to listen to her, or her own friends, as she trusts her husband implicitly, the hallmark of her relationship with him and envy of all others.
Meanwhile, Whitey's beau, Dave, is frustrated with her when Van calls one night during dinner and she once again drops everything to rush off and serve him, any time, any place. When Dave asks her to marry him, she refuses, and buries herself deeper in her work.
Van covets J. D. Underwood's popular weekly to broaden his reader base. To prevent his chief rival from beating him to it, the pursuit is kept top secret - only Whitey is permitted to know.
When Van returns from meeting Underwood and tells Linda the white lie that he has spent the day at his club, Linda accidentally learns that he had not been there but had spent part of it with Whitey (who had merely helped him prepare his sales pitch). At a company skating party, Linda is too sick to skate, but Van and Whitey gleefully crack the whip together. Linda meanwhile gets a misinformed earful from a gabby wife who - clueless who Linda is - plants more seeds of fear and jealousy. On the ride home Van reveals he had turned down a request to promote Whitey elsewhere in the company, explaining she is too valuable to him. Linda pleads with him to assent; he refuses, they quarrel, she strides angry and hurt into their home, and he stomps off the same way for the refuge of his club.
She gives in and calls Van there. Overjoyed, he rushes home into her arms.
Van promises Linda a trip together to the Caribbean, but to preserve the secrecy of his still-pending blockbuster he is vague about a date. His top company rep falls ill, and Van is forced to take his place at a big industry convention in Havana. He knows it will be all work and no play, so refuses Linda's repeated requests to accompany him in lieu of the promised island getaway.
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