She came to type. He came to flirt. The '30s office romance that started it all.
Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.
Acting
Marie Glory's eyebrow game is devastatingly precise.
Direction
Thiele stages office space like a battleground of glances.
Director
Wilhelm Thiele
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just before the Hays Code crackdown, this is prime 'pre-Code' cinema where sexual innuendo and workplace harassment could still be played for laughs without moral punishment.
Director Wilhelm Thiele fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and had a second career in Hollywood; this French production captures his European style before American studio pressures flattened it.
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