Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
3 GREAT STARS IN THE PERFECT TRIANGLE!
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 28M
Director : Clarence Brown
Writer : Norman Krasna, John Lee Mahin, Alice Duer Miller
Synopsis
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
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