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More Than a Secretary

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Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) is an independent woman too busy running her secretarial school to find romance. After blonde man-hunter Maizie (Dorothea Kent), the worst typist in Miss Baldwin's class, accuses her of being an old maid, Carol quits and goes to work as a secretary for her dream man, Mr. Gilbert (George Brent), editor of a health magazine. The dream spirals into a nightmare when Gilbert promotes Carol to associate editor and hires brainless Maizie as his personal secretary.

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Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine Sep 25, 2019
For the most part More Than a Secretary is the routine boss-and-stenographer movie with a standard plot and type characters. Go to Full Review
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Alfred E. Green

Director

Jean Arthur

Carol Baldwin

George Brent

Fred Gilbert

Lionel Stander

Ernest

Dorothea Kent

Maizie West

Ruth Donnelly

Helen Davis
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Movie Info

Synopsis Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) is an independent woman too busy running her secretarial school to find romance. After blonde man-hunter Maizie (Dorothea Kent), the worst typist in Miss Baldwin's class, accuses her of being an old maid, Carol quits and goes to work as a secretary for her dream man, Mr. Gilbert (George Brent), editor of a health magazine. The dream spirals into a nightmare when Gilbert promotes Carol to associate editor and hires brainless Maizie as his personal secretary.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Production Co
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 2, 2013
Runtime
1h 17m
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