Wife vs. Secretary

Feb 28, 1936

1h 28m

★ 6.6

3 GREAT STARS IN THE PERFECT TRIANGLE!

Overview

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Van 'V.S.' Stanhope

Clark Gable

Helen 'Whitey' Wilson

Jean Harlow

Linda Stanhope

Myrna Loy

Dave

James Stewart

Mimi Stanhope

May Robson

J.D. Underwood

George Barbier

Joan Carstairs

Gloria Holden

Joe Farnsworth

Hobart Cavanaugh

Finney

Tom Dugan

Simpson

Gilbert Emery

Eve Merritt

Marjorie Gateson

Postal Clerk (uncredited)

Hooper Atchley

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

7.4

Trouble in Paradise

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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.

6.2

The Scoundrel

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A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.

6.0

Fitzwilly

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When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

6.2

High Art

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When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

7.4

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

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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.

6.1

Wolf

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An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.

6.4

Small Time Crooks

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A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

6.9

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

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After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

6.1

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5.4

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6.1

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A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

5.1

1001 Nights

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Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

6.6

Wilde

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7.2

The Orphanage

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A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

4.9

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

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Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

7.0

Inland Empire

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5.8

Married Life

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A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.