Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.
Frank Darien
- Luke C. Winters
- (as Frank Darion)
Judith Barrett
- Sarah Ellen
- (as Nancy Dover)
Robert Allen
- Graduate at Dance
- (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Robert Gordon
- Office Boy
- (uncredited)
George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
- Old Man at Graduation Dance
- (uncredited)
Virginia Sale
- Sally Curtin
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaLoretta Young was just 18 years old when this film was released.
- GoofsShadow of boom microphone moving vertically up the curtained doors behind Johnny and Mrs. Emery at the club after she mentions having a cabin in the Adironacks.
- Quotes
Claire 'Mac' McIntyre: Honestly, Johnny, you're only good for two things: making music and making love.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Complicated Women (2003)
- SoundtracksConstantly
(uncredited)
Music by Bert Williams (1910)
Lyrics by Chris Smith and Jim Burris
Performed by Frank Albertson with band
Played often throughout the picture
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A career woman in a man's world
BIG BUSINESS GIRL (1931) is an unspectacular pre-Code talkie with a bit of a racy edge. Eighteen-year-old Loretta Young plays a college grad trying to make it in the business world. At her advertising company, she is quickly promoted from a secretary, but finds out she's being paid merely to "decorate the office". What she doesn't realize is that her boss (Ricardo Cortez) is underpaying her by more than half what her talents are worth, but this is not the main issue in the film. She wants to climb the ladder and is willing to play the game if that's what it takes. The sudden appearance of her long-distance boyfriend (Frank Albertson) throws a monkey wrench in her plans and the movie becomes a will-they-won't-they waiting game to see if the young couple can work out their misunderstandings.
Fourth-billed Joan Blondell doesn't appear until the very end of the film, but she's fantastic as a professional correspondent in divorce set-ups. She plays cards in her negligée with nervous husbands as they await the private detectives. It's a living. Streetwise Blondell can handle herself and, as she says, with the type of husbands she works with it's safer than working in a beauty parlor. Blondell is a great comedienne and her scenes are easily the highlight of the film.
Fourth-billed Joan Blondell doesn't appear until the very end of the film, but she's fantastic as a professional correspondent in divorce set-ups. She plays cards in her negligée with nervous husbands as they await the private detectives. It's a living. Streetwise Blondell can handle herself and, as she says, with the type of husbands she works with it's safer than working in a beauty parlor. Blondell is a great comedienne and her scenes are easily the highlight of the film.
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- Dec 5, 2012
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