Working Girls

1931
1h 17m

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Dorothy Hall and Judith Wood in Working Girls (1931)

Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beau... Read allTwo sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.

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Judith Wood

June Thorpe

Dorothy Hall

Mae Thorpe

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Boyd Wheeler

Paul Lukas

Dr. Joseph Von Schrader

Stuart Erwin

Pat Kelly

Frances Dee

Louise Adams

Mary Forbes

Mrs. Johnstone

Frances Moffett

Lou Hollings

Claire Dodd

Jane

Dorothy Stickney

Loretta

Adrienne Ames

Bit
(uncredited)

Edith Arnold

Verne
(uncredited)

Mischa Auer

Elsie's Boyfriend
(uncredited)

Sheila Bromley

Carrie
(uncredited)

Marion Byron

Ellen
(uncredited)

Leonard Carey

Boyd's Butler
(uncredited)

Ruth Channing

Frieda
(uncredited)

Pat Cummings

Singer with Megaphone
(uncredited)

Director
- Dorothy Arzner
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The original play, "Blind Mice" by Vera Caspary and Winifred Lenihan, premiered on Broadway at the Times Square Theatre on October 15th, 1930, and ran for a mere 14 performances. The opening night cast included Betty Breckenridge, Claiborne Foster, Hallie Manning, Gloria Shea (billed as Olive Shea) and Geraldine Wall. Unlike the film, the play has an all-female cast and takes place entirely within one room of the Rolfe House, the women's hostel where the film opens. The play was itself a reworking of Caspary's novel "Music in the Street" published by Grosset & Dunlap in December, 1929.

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Mae Thorpe: [about June] Don't think she's conceited because she talks big Miss Johnson. She's just young.

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4/10

Working Girls doesn't

The hayseed sisters Thorpe, June (Judy Wood) and Mae (Doroty Hall) blow into the big city with hopes and aspirations for a decent paying job and perhaps, future husband. Staying at a boarding house for women the girls find employment (during the Depression) at lightning speed along with some intense male interest from Buddy Rogers, Paul Lukas and Stu Erwin.

Directed by Hollywood's only female director at the time, Dorothy Arzner, Working Girls is a light comedy chick flick that offers moderate return. The leading ladies simply lack the comedy chops and sass in which the contemporary comedy team Zazu Pitts and Thelma Todd would shine. There's plenty of sapphic inference while the male lovers border on heels and lechers, Arzner and scriptwriter Zoe Atkins keep matters light and comic but not interesting enough to hold one's attention for long. Working Girls deserves a pink slip.