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His Private Secretary

His Private Secretary

  • Status: Released
  • 10-06-1933
  • Runtime: 60 min
  • Score: 4.9
  • Vote count: 18

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.

Evalyn Knapp

Marion Hall

John Wayne

Dick Wallace

Reginald Barlow

Mr. Wallace

Alec B. Francis

Rev. Hall

Arthur Hoyt

Little

Natalie Kingston

Polly

Patrick Cunning

Van - Polly's Brother

Al St. John

Tom - Garage Owner

Hugh Kidder

Jenkins - the Butler

Mickey Rentschler

Joe Boyd

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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.