Bunker Bean

Jun 26, 1936

1h 7m

★ 4.6

Overview

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Bunker Bean

Owen Davis Jr.

Mary Kent

Louise Latimer

J.C. Kent

Robert McWade

Grandmother

Jessie Ralph

Rosie Kelly

Lucille Ball

Professor Ed Balthazer

Berton Churchill

Mr. Glab (as Edward Nugent)

Edward Nugent

Mrs. Dorothy Kent

Hedda Hopper

Dr. Meyerhauser

Ferdinand Gottschalk

Kent's Butler

Leonard Carey

A. C. Jones

Russell Hicks

Countess Cassandra

Sibyl Harris

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

4.7

Behind Office Doors

Mar 15, 1931

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.

6.0

Pursuit

Aug 9, 1935

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )

5.1

Man Wanted

Apr 23, 1932

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

6.6

Beauty and the Boss

Apr 9, 1932

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

6.3

Stand-In

Oct 29, 1937

An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.

6.7

Death of a Shadow

Jun 4, 2012

Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without consequences.

5.2

Vellinakshatram

Apr 2, 2004

Vinod loves Aswathi, who belongs to a royal family with dark secrets. However, strange events occur after Aswathi mysteriously dies during childbirth and their daughter is believed to be possessed.

6.3

Dracula

Jun 13, 1974

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

0.0

Men in Her Diary

Sep 14, 1945

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.

6.3

Detective Ballerino

Jan 9, 2016

In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.

5.5

That Other Woman

Nov 13, 1942

A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.

4.7

The Office Wife

Aug 23, 1930

Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.

5.8

This Could Be the Night

May 14, 1957

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

0.0

The Fox Spirit and The Little Priest

Feb 9, 2021

She has waited 300 years for the other to be born again. Can their relationship find a new start when one is a fox spirit, and the other a priestess?

6.5

Take a Letter, Darling

May 6, 1942

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.

5.6

Men Are Such Fools

Jun 15, 1938

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.