The Office Wife is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, released by Warner Bros., 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. Publisher Larry Fellowes believes the personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more decisions than his wife, which creates a stronger bond between secretary and boss than that between husband and wife. He persuades author Kate Halsey to write a novel based... on this premise with these points and promises of riches. When Larry's secretary learns of his plans to marry Linda , the secretary has a nervous breakdown because she is in love with him herself. A new secretary, Anne Murdock , is hired while Larry is on his honeymoon. She is attractive, intelligent and efficient. Larry, a workaholic, begins to neglect his wife working with his secretary, and they both fall in love. Meanwhile, his wife is seeing another man named Mr.
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| Release date: | August 23, 1930 |
| Directed by: | Lloyd Bacon |
| Runtime: | 59 Minutes |
| Editor: | George Marks |
| Cinematography: | William Rees |
| Screenplay by: | Charles Kenyon |
| Adapted from: | The Office Wife |