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My Dear Secretary

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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.

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!".

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.

this movie was great. Most of all this movie was very speical to me, because
my parents went to see this movie before I was born. My dad loved Lorraine Day and Kirk Douglas, and this movie, to him was great. That my parents named me Stephany and my family knows me as Steve. I had to get this movie , to show my grandchildren.

This is a great movie plus it has a plot. Keenan Wynn who plays Kirk's best friend is hilarious and this movie even has Irene Ryan (Granny on Beverly Hillbillies) maybe in her 30's, singing a little tune

My favorite line in this movie is towards the end when she (Steve or Stephanie) talks about her "school girl crush"...I LOVE it. Good movie and if you like the old black and whites...this is a good one for your collection. See "footsteps" for the speech I love.

The film is worth watching for its portrait of a time long gone, but not interesting enough to watch twice. I expected a wittier film than I got, but enjoyed looking at the great costumes worn by Laraine Day. The problem is that the story is perfunctory and jerkily paced. Kirk Douglas is the weakest character. No way do you believe that Kirk Douglas has fallen in love with Loraine Day, or that the swift turnabouts in personality are credible. But Laraine glows and is fun to watch, and the supporting characters are interesting.