Sophisticate Loretta Young and Doctor Warner Baxter fall in love and get married. She understands that a good doctor is on call 24 hours a day. It's when she finds out that his assistant isn't a man, but Virginia Bruce, that she starts to worry. She takes Miss Bruce to lunch and satisfies herself that love had never entered her mind. Now that Miss Young has put it there, Miss Bruce realizes that she does love Baxter.
It's well performed under the direction of Walter Lang, but while sex raises its head only in the most Code-compliant of ways, it is present, and curiously absent. Baxter refers to his all-girl staff as his "harem", and cracks up when Miss Bruce or Miss Young leaves him. This is by no means the first movie to tackle the issue of the "office wife" However, because this movie, unlike, say, WIFE VERSUS SECRETARY, is unwilling to be serious, it comes out as smarmy. Doubtless, it was intended to be sophisticated and frothy, but the Production Code did not permit that.
It's well performed under the direction of Walter Lang, but while sex raises its head only in the most Code-compliant of ways, it is present, and curiously absent. Baxter refers to his all-girl staff as his "harem", and cracks up when Miss Bruce or Miss Young leaves him. This is by no means the first movie to tackle the issue of the "office wife" However, because this movie, unlike, say, WIFE VERSUS SECRETARY, is unwilling to be serious, it comes out as smarmy. Doubtless, it was intended to be sophisticated and frothy, but the Production Code did not permit that.