More Than a Secretary (1936)

George Brent: Fred Gilbert

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• Carol Baldwin : I'm Miss Baldwin from the Supreme Secretarial School and I...

  Fred Gilbert : Oh, you are, huh. Mmm. Well, offhand I can't tell a thing about you. I will say though, there's some suggestion of modesty. The other girls trooped in here looking like a lot of chorus girls!

• Fred Gilbert : Oh, you want some raw carrot?

  Carol Baldwin : Eh, no thank you.

  Fred Gilbert : Good for you. Builds brain cells.

  Carol Baldwin : Oh really, you know I always thought that fish...

  Fred Gilbert : Fish? Fish! Popular fallacy.

  [Back to dictating his letter] 

  Fred Gilbert : What did I say last?

  Carol Baldwin : Poppycock.

• Fred Gilbert : For ages, the heart has been elevated to a place of primary importance in the human body. Poets as well as scientists have helped contribute to this elevation. By now, the fallacy is an excepted thing. But, I wish to explode this myth. The heart is not the seat of our emotions! That place of honor belongs to the liver!

• Fred Gilbert : Oh, have I shown you an article on body tone and office efficiency in the May issue?

• Fred Gilbert : Oh, you mean, make sort of a racket out of it, I suppose.

  Carol Baldwin : Sure. Why not? Everybody else does it. You buy toothpaste because a couple of blackface comics make you laugh. Coffee isn't coffee anymore, it's an amateur hour. Soap? Why soap is the road to love! Ballyhoo, that's what gets 'em.

• Carol Baldwin : Now, take your covers. Who wants to look at a man with great bulging muscles? Everybody likes to look at a beautiful woman. Put her in one of those bathing suits you could thread a needle with and everybody will stop and look. The women will try to figure how they can wear themselves down to the size...

  Fred Gilbert : Hey, Just, just, just a minute. Just a minute, Miss Baldwin. I'm not putting out a sex magazine. Body and Brain is a dignified publication.

  Carol Baldwin : But, it doesn't have to be dull!

• Carol Baldwin : Its beginning to rain!

  Fred Gilbert : That's fine, I love rain.

  Carol Baldwin : So do I, on the roof.

  Fred Gilbert : Oh, you're spoiled and soft!

  Carol Baldwin : I"m cold and wet!

• Fred Gilbert : This is a health magazine, Miss Baldwin. Health! Not a circus! You were brought in here as a secretary, not an advisor. And just because I was foolish enough to ask your opinion about the magazine, you took advantage of it. You and like all the other women in business, you can't keep your place!

• Bill Houston : Oh, Maizie, perhaps Mr. Gilbert would like a high ball.

  Maizie West : Would you?

  Fred Gilbert : Oh, thanks. I don't think I will.

  Maizie West : Oh, that's wonderful. I wish more men were like that. People laugh at me for being so temperance. But, it sure burns me up to see men guzzling a lot of hooch!

• Maizie West : I think the body is awfully important, don't you Mr. Gilbert?

  Fred Gilbert : Oh, eh, terribly important.

  Maizie West : My mother was of the same opinion. I can hear her say now, "Take care of your body, Maizie because its all you've got". Of course, it hasn't been very easy, on account of my not bein' strong. I often think my body's my own worst enemy.

• Maizie West : Is, eh, is she a woman?

  Fred Gilbert : Oh, yes.

  Maizie West : Oh dear, I do hope she'll like me. Women don't always do.

• Maizie West : Good morning, darling. What's the matter with my toots?

  Fred Gilbert : Don't call me toots!

  Maizie West : Why not?

  Fred Gilbert : In the office I'd like you to remember its Mr. Gilbert.

  Maizie West : Anything you say, toots!