And that's the husband trying to keep his wife from sleeping with the boss! Immature band leader Frank Albertson looses his wife Loretta Young after a year's separation while he's off in Paris on a job and she goes to work as an advertising assistant to lecherous Ricardo Cortez. She overhears Cortez referring to her as "office furniture", so she sets out to teach him a lesson by flirting with him at every chance (by showing off an exposed leg) without intending to go through with what he desires. It works, and she rises to the top of the agency, which causes problems in her marriage when Albertson returns. Cortez, a good-hearted rogue at heart, sets up a show-down involving a professional "other woman" (Joan Blondel) who makes a living playing cards with men waiting to be caught by their wives.
There are a lot of delicious pre-code innuendos in this entertaining but predictable marital drama, with Blondell standing out in her small role (which comes towards the end) and the future "Attila the Nun" Young showing a naughty side that would be totally absent in her later post-code era films. Cortez is fine, but Albertson seems like a college kid trying to mingle with adults and just not fitting.
There are a lot of delicious pre-code innuendos in this entertaining but predictable marital drama, with Blondell standing out in her small role (which comes towards the end) and the future "Attila the Nun" Young showing a naughty side that would be totally absent in her later post-code era films. Cortez is fine, but Albertson seems like a college kid trying to mingle with adults and just not fitting.