Wife Versus Secretary

directed by Clarence Brown
List(s):"Movie One"
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1936
Date Added:12/31/2014
Date Watched:07/27/2021
Description:Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) is a magazine publisher who is secretly trying to buy another publication. The only other person who knows is his attractive secretary Whitey (Jean Harlow), with whom Van has a friendly but professional reputation. But when others see the two of them together, they begin to talk. This talk soon reaches Linda (Myrna Loy), Van's wife. She trusts her husband, but as the evidence piles up, she soon begins to suspect and then be convinced that Van is having an affair with Whitey. She determines to divorce him, but Whitey goes to see her and say, in essence, if you leave him, I WILL take him. This causes Linda to regain her senses and return to Van. Jimmy Stewart has a small role as Whitey's long-suffering fiance.
My Rating:8

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Review - Wife Versus Secretary

A very simple, predictable plot, but very polished with excellent actors. I've not cared for Jean Harlow in other things, but she was excellent in this.
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