Product Details

• Actors: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee
• Directors: Charles Martin
• Writers: Charles Martin
• Producers: Harry M. Popkin, Joseph H. Nadel, Leo C. Popkin
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Delta
• DVD Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YKQM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,678 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "My Dear Secretary" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Douglas is a playboy writer, and Laraine Day, his secretary, is also a beginning writer. Their farcical antics are greatly supported by cast members Florence Bates, Irene Ryan and especially Keenan Wynn, who practically steals the show as Douglas’ roommate. Fans of Douglas will enjoy this lighter side of the multi-talented actor who, incidentally, was eager to do comedy after being in so many serious roles.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My Dear Secretary, April 3, 2006

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Nard Kordell (Los Angeles area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Dear Secretary (DVD)

This is a great, lighthearted, fun movie! For a contemporary, younger generation, it's probably just too much. But the generation for whom this movie was made, a generation that went thru a war that just killed 60 plus million poeple world wide, it was a simple, fun-loving, fresh, happy, 'the-future-did-look-brighter-and-new-days-were-coming' type of movie. It touches a wonderfully simple sense of love enough times to leave you in a better frame of mind once you have finished the last moments of the film.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kirk's Best Movie!, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: My Dear Secretary [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For those of you who may have stumbled on this movie by accident, let me tell you that for the price you won't find a better movie. The comedy is sharp and the dialogue is better than any episode of Frasier. Wynn rules as the Godfather Of All Slackers: "If you have the opportunity to get paid for doing nothing then grab it, you fool!".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Take A Letter, Any Letter., October 9, 2010

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Tom Without Pity (A Major Midwestern Metropolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Dear Secretary (DVD)

This is a review for MY DEAR SECRETARY (1948) written & directed by Charles Martin. The nearly forgotten Lorraine Day co-stars in this fast paced later day screwball comedy as a wanna be pro writer named Stephanie Gaylord taking a secretarial job with best-sellling home officed writer Owen Waterbury played by Kirk Douglas.

Mr. Waterbury's success seems to come from the fact that he is so poorly organized he doesn't know whether he's coming or going and no one else seems to know either.

Finally Stephanie threatens to leave and to get her to stay, the playboy best seller offers to marry her. Wildly unbeleivable story buttressed by fine performances from all in the cast especially Keenan Wynne. Well done comedy with more than a few gaps in logic and believability.

I rate it Three and One Half Stars.