His Private Secretary

1933

1h 0m

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4.8/10

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Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.

Directors

Phil Whitman

Writers

Lewis D. Collins(story by)

Sam Katzman(writer by)

Jack Natteford(adaptation by)

Stars

Evalyn Knapp

John Wayne

Reginald Barlow

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Marion Hall

Dick Wallace

Mr. Wallace

Rev. Hall

Little

Polly

Van - Polly's Brother

Al St. John

Tom - Garage Owner

Hugh Kidder

Jenkins - the Butler

Mickey Rentschler

Joe Boyd

Directors

Phil Whitman

Writers

Lewis D. Collins(story by)

Sam Katzman(writer by)

Jack Natteford(adaptation by)

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This has quite a fun premiss to it. "Dick" (John Wayne) is a bit of a philanderer, the handsome but wastrel son of wealthy "Mr. Wallace" (Reginald Barlow). Uncharacteristically, the flighty young man alights on the respectable "Marion" (Evalyn Knapp), the grand-daughter of a small town preacher he meets at a petrol station and a whirlwind romance ensues. "Dad" is having none of this, and so it falls to the young girl to convince him she is not just after the family's money. On a visit to his building to demonstrate that his assumptions are wrong, she barges into his office. He likes her forthrightness and hires her as his secretary where she gradually makes herself indispensable ("Wallace" still has no idea she is his son's new wife!) What's going to happen when he finds out...? The production is basic, as is the writing, but it's still quite a tightly cut, light-hearted, little story with just about enough charm to keep it going for an hour.

Geronimo196713 Jun, 2022