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Searching for this title on Amazon.com brings some eye-opening results, and none of them are this film.
It's another pre-code, Forbidden Hollywood movie about (of all the things) a bitchy businesswoman who does basically what men did back then - troll through the vast army of compatible employees and use them as one-night-stands. That works, as far as it goes. I felt quite sympathetic with anyone or anything that would convince her of the serious error of that kind of life (I'd feel the same way if it were a man).
Unfortunately for my feminism, this particular female falls in love and finds that "she just can't do it" like a man can, ie.: be both romantic and business. Men, though, men can continue their extra-marital activities for decades after marriage AND run a company. Such gifted human beings! How did they ever do it?
I imagine that today's bitchy businesswoman rom-coms are directly responding to this kind of nonsense, although they go much too far in the wrong direction.
This film is a historical oddity, but not necessarily worth watching except out of curiosity, or as a study of feminism (like shooting fish in a barrel) or Hollywood anti-feminism.
It's another pre-code, Forbidden Hollywood movie about (of all the things) a bitchy businesswoman who does basically what men did back then - troll through the vast army of compatible employees and use them as one-night-stands. That works, as far as it goes. I felt quite sympathetic with anyone or anything that would convince her of the serious error of that kind of life (I'd feel the same way if it were a man).
Unfortunately for my feminism, this particular female falls in love and finds that "she just can't do it" like a man can, ie.: be both romantic and business. Men, though, men can continue their extra-marital activities for decades after marriage AND run a company. Such gifted human beings! How did they ever do it?
I imagine that today's bitchy businesswoman rom-coms are directly responding to this kind of nonsense, although they go much too far in the wrong direction.
This film is a historical oddity, but not necessarily worth watching except out of curiosity, or as a study of feminism (like shooting fish in a barrel) or Hollywood anti-feminism.
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