Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

weezeralfalfa Julia(Claudette Colbert)is a very competent executive secretary for her busy department store manager boss Richard Barclay(Melvyn Douglas). For 6 years they've made a great team. For 6 years, Julia has been waiting for Richard to ask her to marry him. But, he's shown zero romantic interest in this gorgeous, brainy, woman. For one thing, seems he had a very bad experience with his ex-wife, and is shy about getting into another relationship. But when Julia gets a job offer in Paris at double salary, he's finally persuaded to marry her (with no wedding party frills) to avoid losing her help at the office. But, Julia has other ideas about what kind of life she wants as a married woman. She wants to be a pampered 'stay-at-home' wife and mother rather than continue the hectic life of a career woman.. At first, Richard argues against her idea. But when she's about to run off with a business associate, he gets drunk(along with the butler), and tells her she's going for a little ride(said with the suggestion of an ominous outcome). The drunk butler/chauffeur weaves through city traffic to a destination where they pick up a few bricks. She suggests they are going to weigh her down in a river drowning. Actually, they have another purpose for the bricks in the whirlwind finish, which I will let you find out for yourself. The majority of the humor relates to Richard's bratty half-grown daughter Annabel(Edith Fellows). At first, she hates Judith and her unfamiliar ways. But, eventually, she comes to love her, and cries when she says she's running off with another man who treats her more like a woman than a work associate. If you remember "Bright Eyes", with Shirley Temple, you will remember Jane Withers playing Shirley's very bratty playmate as being very similar to Annabel. However, Annabel has no playmate to vent her anger and tricks on, except her cute little dog, Fluffy. Richard's spinster sister, Gertrude(Katharine Alexander), who has been taking care of the house and Annabel has to get used to being second in command in the household. As an example of their sometimes conflicts, Gertrude pulls the drapes closed by day so the sun doesn't fade the carpets. Julia then opens the drapes, saying people need some sunshine, and drapes can eventually be replaced. It's clear that both Gertrude and Richard have been too soft on Annabel, and have no idea how to play with her to make her happy. Gertrude says she hopes the marriage will fail, as it leaves no role for her if Julia doesn't work outside the home.Raymond Walburn, the butler/chauffeur, usually played somewhat comical characters, his 'bug eyes' facilitating his often bumbling mannerisms.....Jean Dixon plays Julia's scheming friend.... It's a rare film including Claudette that I don't take a liking to. This one is not her best, but it's not bad. See it on YouTube. in B&W, of course.

C. Carroll Adams In the 1930's most studios seldom re-issued movies. But, Columbia was not run like the other major studios. If Harry Cohn had a week without a new film, he would dust off an older movie that he felt still could find an audience.I was only 3 in 1935, so I was not taken to the original release. I am sure my Granny had seen it because she crushed on Melvyn Douglas. But there could have been a secondary reason Granny took me to the 1938 re-issue. My parents were absolutely anti-spanking, while Granny make it clear she wanted me spanked early and often. Therefore she dragged me to every film she could find in which a child near my age was spanked.Claudette Colbert plays "Julia Scott" the Secretary; Edith Fellows (at 12 plays) "Annabel Barclay" at 9; Melvyn Douglas plays "Richard Barclay" the "Boss" and Annabel's father.These days most user reviews focus on the spanking, which was largely talk. Early in the film it is obvious that the super executive secretary is spanking the troubled daughter of her boss. You see Claudette pick up a hairbrush and pat it against her hand. The tells Annabel "This will hurt you more than me." The girl cowers and asks "What are you going to do?" Smash cut to the hall where the dotty yet sweet nanny and vicious aunt listed to rather crude sound effects of a spanking. Twenty running minutes later, and in story time a couple of days, Julia the secretary has married her boss Richard. At breakfast she tells Richard that she will not be going to the office because she is needed at home.Annabel is on both a hunger and talking strike. When Julia sits down wearing a lovely summer house dress, Richard is upset she will not ride to the office with him. Annabel has a tantrum saying she hates Julia. Once Richard leaves, the girl is cornered. Julia orders her uneaten breakfast be taken to her room. Then Julia reminds Annabel her first spanking was "just a paddy-whacking" but under the New Deal the girl will get an "old-fashioned walloping" which is not shown. But during that morning Julia and Annabel bond.Another 18 minutes of film pass, and a day or so in the story. Julia is at the office taking Richard to lunch. They discuss the playboy "Lenny" who just sold them his family department store. Richard can't find, and Julia knows he is with a lady pal of hers. Out of nowhere she says to Richard "He needs a spanking".I recorded this film from TCM on 5 April 2011, but having seen it on screen, I filed that DVD. When I adored Edith Fellows in "Five Peppers..." I dug out "She Married..." and find it good fun, but then I am now 80 and Granny is not around!

edwagreen Wonderful movie with great chemistry between Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas. She portrays his executive secretary who has other designs when it comes to her boss.Ready to leave for another position in Paris, Douglas realizes that he can't do without her and so they wed. Of course, his idea of marriage is for a strictly business relationship and hers of course is for love.Colbert has plenty on her plate as Douglas has an unhappy, miserable young daughter from his unsuccessful marriage and a sister, Gertrude, who is nasty, obnoxious and will do anything to break up the marriage so as to keep her place in the household.Colbert is wonderful as the career secretary who is able to balance bringing stability into the family and Douglas is great as the hard-nosed business man.Of course, there are complications which threaten their liaison and even with a madcap ending, the film is most satisfying.

blanche-2 Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas star in "She Married Her Boss," a 1935 comedy also starring Edith Fellows and Jean Dixon.This is a very dated comedy including a wife having to leave her career when she gets married, drunk driving, and child abuse - all things that are pretty much out now. Sometimes it's hard, but the only way to get anything out of these movies is to take them for what they were - done at a specific time when society mores were different. Some of it, however, has to do with the censors, particularly the career woman part, and there really wasn't any need for it. Interesting to me that the censors were very careful to push the nonworking mom but okayed spanking a kid with a hairbrush and drunk driving.Claudette Colbert is Julia Scott, an efficient assistant at a department store, taking care of a huge office for her boss Richard Barclay (Melvyn Douglas). Julia isn't happy - her idea of a real career would be to marry her boss, with whom she's been in love for six years. She gets her wish, and his darling daughter (Fellows) along with it.Julia finds that Barclay's home is a mess, and sets about putting it in order. Bonding with his daughter is going to take more, however, than mere efficiency. The kid's a brat. And Barclay's sister, who's used to having things her own way, is no party either.Colbert is fabulous, and Douglas, one of the great actors, doesn't infuse a terrible part with much warmth. His character isn't very likable, and one never feels that this is a truly married and in love couple. I don't really blame Douglas - the role is badly written, to go along with some of the script. The supporting actors are all excellent, including the aforementioned, Katherine Alexander as Barclay's sister and Raymond Walburn as the butler.There are some very good scenes, and the film is definitely worth it for Colbert - and a look at how far we've come in some arenas.