Wife Versus Secretary (1936) [DVDrip_XviD]

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Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

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General Information

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Type.................: Movie

More Info............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028505/

Video Format.........: XviD

Video Bitrate........: 1014

Audio Bitrate........: 96 Total Stereo

Resolution...........: 624x464

Color................: Black & White

FPS..................: 23.976

Source...............: DVD

Original Format......: NTSCGenre................: Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDb Rating..........: 7.0

Runtime..............: 01:27:34

Language.............: English

Subtitles............: English

Original Release Date: 28 February 1936 (USA)



For such an unheralded movie, Wife vs. Secretary provides a surprisingly

satisfying time, aided immensely by the old MGM gloss and a trio of big stars.

Clark Gable, so secure in his manly-man pictures, reminds us that he could be a

dab hand at lightweight romance; his role is a typical Gable world-beater, a

publishing tycoon with a lavish Manhattan lifestyle. But here he's happily,

blissfully married, and his scenes with wife Myrna Loy are playful and cute.

The only glitch is, his secretary is Jean Harlow, and despite Gable's fidelity,

tongues will inevitably wag. Harlow here has none of the boisterous sass of her

earlier pairings with Gable--she really is just an efficient and plucky

secretary, even if boss and assistant trade charged glances during a business

trip to Havana--and so the movie's tone is pretty genteel. The greenhorn James

Stewart, still a couple of years from stardom, plays Harlow's mild but

suspicious suitor, and he gets stuck with obligatory dialogue urging Harlow to

give up her job and settle down with him. (The movie is interesting in showing

how productive and fulfilled Harlow is by work rather than marriage.) MGM

mainstay Clarence Brown directed, with an approach so dignified that nothing,

alas, ever gets too giddy. Still, Gable and Loy are so fun together the movie

succeeds. For Thin Man fans who can't get enough of Loy and the idea of marriage

-as-playtime, this is a good fix. --Robert Horton-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



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