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Acteurist oeuvre-view Jean Arthur Part 6: MORE THAN A SECRETARY (1936) and HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (1937)

Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 5:37 a.m.

In this week's entry in our Jean Arthur Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, we look at Alfred E. Green's comedy\xa0More Than A Secretary\xa0(1936) and Frank Borzage's\xa0genre-defying\xa0screwball melodrama\xa0History Is Made at Night\xa0(1937), pairing Arthur with up-and-coming romantic lead Charles Boyer. We compare\xa0More Than A Secretary\xa0with Green's better-known film about sexual politics in patriarchal office culture,\xa0Baby Face, and the possibly influential blending of genres and the lovers' achievement of Borzagean transcendence in\xa0History Is Made at Night, which gave Arthur her most glamourous role up to that point.\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MORE THAN A SECRETARY (1936) [dir. Alfred E. Green]

0h 36m 37s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (1937) [dir. Frank Borzage]

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