More Than a Secretary

Dec 10, 1936

1h 17m

★ 6.4

It's Howlarious!

Overview

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

More Than a Secretary Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Carol Baldwin

Jean Arthur

Fred Gilbert

George Brent

Ernest

Lionel Stander

Helen Davis

Ruth Donnelly

Bill Houston

Reginald Denny

Maizie West

Dorothea Kent

Mr. Crosby

Charles Halton

Enid

Geraldine Hall

Jones - Head of Art Department (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Apartment Custodian with Hose (uncredited)

Harry Semels

Ann (uncredited)

Dorothy Short

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

8.1

Some Like It Hot

Mar 19, 1959

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.

3.0

Wake Up, Poor Periklis!

Jan 1, 1969

To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?

0.0

First Saturday Morning: Featuring Snuggle Bunny

Invalid Date

A well to do bunny faces challenges in everyday living in this fun loving tribute to Saturday Morning cartoons.

6.4

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Nov 14, 1997

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

6.1

Down with Love

May 8, 2003

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

7.4

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Oct 5, 1972

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

5.9

Vampire's Kiss

Jun 2, 1989

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.

9.0

Peacock

Mar 5, 2025

A group of boys get invited to a party by the popular girl at school. They exude confidence on their way to see her, only to be taught a valuable life lesson on masculinity.

0.0

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'

Jan 1, 1991

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

6.3

A Song Is Born

Oct 19, 1948

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

6.9

Blithe Spirit

Apr 5, 1945

A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.

6.6

There's Something About Mary

Jul 15, 1998

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

7.5

Bringing Up Baby

Feb 18, 1938

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

7.6

The Philadelphia Story

Dec 5, 1940

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

3.5

The Skirtchaser

Feb 7, 1957

Paschalis Zoumpoulos, an otherwise decent family man and director of the house Frabalas & Co. belonging to his wife Corinna, is an incorrigible skirtchaser. His assistant Aristos covers as it can, but someday found himself in the dock because Paschalis stung a woman in the street. In court, where he ordered course a poor but clean-cut girl is in dire need of money, and that the way of obliging Paschalis to hire her as a secretary. When Paschalis flirting Alki, she immediately leaves her job and Aristos, resigns.

0.0

His Secretary

Dec 6, 1925

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.

5.9

Intolerable Cruelty

Oct 10, 2003

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

7.7

Harvey

Dec 4, 1950

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

6.8

Secretary

Sep 20, 2002

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.