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3 unusual facts about Wife vs. Secretary


Wife vs. Secretary

The picture was the second time that year that Harlow and Loy worked together, also both appearing during 1936 in Libeled Lady also starring William Powell and Spencer Tracy, with Harlow billed first.

Wife vs. Secretary is a 1936 comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor.

Meanwhile, Whitey's beau, Dave (James Stewart), is very uncomfortable about her relationship with Van as he calls one night while they're having dinner to ask that Whitey help him finish work at a party.


Joseph P. Lash

In 1961, Lash published his first full-length book, a biography of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.


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