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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 For the most part More Than a Secretary is the routine boss-and-stenographer movie with a standard plot and type characters. Sep 25, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews
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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