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He wishes that Claire would come with him to Paris, where he’s taking his college dance band. Handsome, shallow and possessive, Johnny has failed most of his classes. She has top grades and wants to succeed in business in New York. State College graduate Claire ‘Mac’ McIntyre (Loretta Young) parts with her school beau Johnny Saunders (Frank Albertson). A spinster chaperone glowers in disapproval at the wiggling behind of a dancing co-ed, but her elderly male companion grins widely. The old folks just don’t understand how things have changed. A screen has been set up at one end of the dance floor to facilitate smooching, and the girls are as eager as the boys to race to the parking lot to neck. College kids at a graduation dance are kiss ‘n’ pet crazy.
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Robert Lord’s screenplay sets up the dilemma of a young woman, but not in the most realistic of terms. Our heroine’s only choice is between two egotists, a slacker bandleader and a predatory executive. The writers question the status quo in which women can’t find respect in the workplace. The pre-Code sensibility displayed here isn’t just about sex.
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A college girl seeks success both in romance and in business, in the not particularly emancipated year of 1931. more on that series, below.įirst National’s Big Business Girl doesn’t have the most original story, but its hot pre-Code dialogue and situational hanky-panky is virtually non-stop. After ten volumes in ten years, the WAC closed out its Forbidden Hollywood Collection in 2016. The pre-Code period is a great place to visit, and sometimes it feels like a better time than what we’ve got now.
#BIG BUSINESS GIRL ARCHIVE#
Let’s hear it for the Warner Archive Collection’s voluminous vault of early ’30s Warners, MGM and RKO entertainments, which has given us a real education about this era of filmmaking. Written by Robert Lord, story by Patricia Reilly & H.N. Starring: Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blondell, Frank Darien, Dorothy Christy, Oscar Apfel, Judith Barrett, Mickey Bennett, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Virginia Sale. Street Date Septem/ available through the WBshop / 21.99 What does a working girl have to do to get ahead, when all she has in her favor is an incredible face, a lavish wardrobe, and a pair of legs to make any executive wolf howl? Loretta Young juggles two egotistical swains, while Joan Blondell shines as an enticing all-pro homewrecker.ġ931 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 74 min.