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The Office Wife (1930)

The Office Wife poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
59 min
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A secretary and her boss deal with office romance and workplace boundaries. The story follows their romantic tension and the complications that arise.

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What happens

The Office Wife is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and based on the novel of the same name by Faith Baldwin. It was the talkie debut for Joan Blondell who would become one of the major Warner Bros. stars for the following nine years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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