Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Traditional gender roles are reinforced and ridiculed in this provocative comedy from the Rosie the Riveter era. Rosalind Russell is at her scathing best as “Mac” MacGregor, a hard-driven female exec who hires struggling painter Fred MacMurray as her new secretary. With no access to the old boys’ club herself, she makes MacMurray into her beard, bringing him to social events where his mission is to seduce her clients’ wives.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. Producer: B.G. DeSylva. Screenwriter: Claude Binyon. Cinematographer: John Mescall. Editor: Doane Harrison. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Constance Moore, MacDonald Carey, Robert Benchley.
35mm, b/w, 88 min.
