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15 March 1931 (USA) morePlot:
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Pre-code and Pre-feminist moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Mary Astor | ... | Mary Linden |
| Robert Ames | ... | James Duneen |
| Ricardo Cortez | ... | Ronnie Wales |
| Catherine Dale Owen | ... | Ellen May Robinson |
| Kitty Kelly | ... | Delores Kogan |
| Edna Murphy | ... | Daisy Presby |
| Charles Sellon | ... | John Ritter |
| William Morris | ... | Banker Charles H. Robinson |
| George MacFarlane | ... | (scenes deleted) |
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Mary Linden: Robinson of the City Trust could be sold on a proposition to buy Ritter's stock for you, and pay for it out of the profits.James Duneen: [grabs her cigarette and sniffs it] No, it isn't hashish.
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Terrific little film that stars Mary Astor as a go-getter who works her way up as a struggling paper company, but when the owner has to sell for health reasons, she comes up with a scheme for the employees to buy the company with a jerk salesman (Robert Ames) as the "front" even though she is the brains.
Of course he becomes a big success and she becomes his executive secretary, basically still running everything and teaching him class. She loves the dope, but he never catches on as he fools around with a string of bimbos. She is chased by a married but separated man, Ricardo Cortez, who isn't free. But when a society gal catches Ames, everything goes to hell.
Astor is just wonderful as the too-smart woman who almost makes a huge mistake after she loses her man. Ames is good as the jerk (but what does she see in him?), and Cortez is good but doesn't have much to do. Kitty Kelly is good as the sidekick, Dolores. Charles Sellon is the original owner, Cather Dale Owen is the society babe, and Edna Murphy is funny as Daisy.
Worth a look.