Joan Blondell reprises her role from "Lawyer Man" (1933) in which she played a woman who was quietly in love with her boss. She didn't show it by doting, fawning, and attention seeking, she showed it by being upset with her boss, played by William Powell, whenever he lusted after other women. In "Goodbye Again" she does the exact same thing for her boss Kenneth Bixby (Warren William).
I've already mentioned in other reviews how Hollywood was fascinated with female employees falling in love with their bosses, especially secretaries. For reference see "Baby Face" (1933), "Beauty and the Boss" (1932), "Skyscraper Souls" (1932), "The Office Wife" (1930), "Morning Glory" (1933), "Jennie Gerhardt" (1933), "Behind Office Doors" (1931), "Lawyer Man" (1933), "Good-bye Love" (1933), and countless others. We're to believe that female employees fell in love with their bosses back then and not that they felt compelled to be romantically involved with them to keep their jobs.
In this First National Pictures movie Kenneth Bixby is a famous author who has to travel the country to give speeches and promote his book. Alongside him at every stop was his secretary Anne Rogers (Joan Blondell) who did just about everything for him including being his voice of reason.
His stop in Cleveland put him in contact with an old forgotten flame named Julie Wilson nee Julie Clochessy (pronounced claw-see), played by Genevieve Tobin. Julie was all over Ken (Warren William) like flies on you-know-what even though she was married. Ken put up a feeble resistance but eventually caved like a house of cards.
The movie devolved into a nonsensical mess where Julie Wilson was being pursued by her sister Elizabeth (Helen Chandler), a man named Arthur Westlake (Wallace Ford), and her husband Harvey Wilson (Hugh Herbert). For some inexplicable reason Arthur and Elizabeth were more concerned with Julie's infidelity than even her own husband, Harvey. And equally inexplicable was Ken's acting like a child for the last half of the movie. It was bizarre and cringeworthy.
At one point in the movie Harvey Wilson was ready and willing to give his wife up to Ken Bixby. Ken was such a coward that, even though he didn't want to marry Julie he didn't have the backbone to say no to her. Anne swooped in to save the day and prevent Ken from marrying Julie. Even though Ken was a cad and Anne was upset with him, you could see she still had feelings for him. After Anne made it so Julie (Genevieve Tobin) no longer wanted to marry Ken, Julie gave a command, and just like that Harvey was back at her beck and call like she didn't just cheat on him and try to leave him. It was one of the greatest acts of simping and cucking you'll ever see.
This movie was tripe. And you know that Anne stuck by Ken's side in the end which made the movie even worse. I really hated to see Joan Blondell in such a weak and pathetic role.
The crap that passes for romance. Go figure.
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I've already mentioned in other reviews how Hollywood was fascinated with female employees falling in love with their bosses, especially secretaries. For reference see "Baby Face" (1933), "Beauty and the Boss" (1932), "Skyscraper Souls" (1932), "The Office Wife" (1930), "Morning Glory" (1933), "Jennie Gerhardt" (1933), "Behind Office Doors" (1931), "Lawyer Man" (1933), "Good-bye Love" (1933), and countless others. We're to believe that female employees fell in love with their bosses back then and not that they felt compelled to be romantically involved with them to keep their jobs.
In this First National Pictures movie Kenneth Bixby is a famous author who has to travel the country to give speeches and promote his book. Alongside him at every stop was his secretary Anne Rogers (Joan Blondell) who did just about everything for him including being his voice of reason.
His stop in Cleveland put him in contact with an old forgotten flame named Julie Wilson nee Julie Clochessy (pronounced claw-see), played by Genevieve Tobin. Julie was all over Ken (Warren William) like flies on you-know-what even though she was married. Ken put up a feeble resistance but eventually caved like a house of cards.
The movie devolved into a nonsensical mess where Julie Wilson was being pursued by her sister Elizabeth (Helen Chandler), a man named Arthur Westlake (Wallace Ford), and her husband Harvey Wilson (Hugh Herbert). For some inexplicable reason Arthur and Elizabeth were more concerned with Julie's infidelity than even her own husband, Harvey. And equally inexplicable was Ken's acting like a child for the last half of the movie. It was bizarre and cringeworthy.
At one point in the movie Harvey Wilson was ready and willing to give his wife up to Ken Bixby. Ken was such a coward that, even though he didn't want to marry Julie he didn't have the backbone to say no to her. Anne swooped in to save the day and prevent Ken from marrying Julie. Even though Ken was a cad and Anne was upset with him, you could see she still had feelings for him. After Anne made it so Julie (Genevieve Tobin) no longer wanted to marry Ken, Julie gave a command, and just like that Harvey was back at her beck and call like she didn't just cheat on him and try to leave him. It was one of the greatest acts of simping and cucking you'll ever see.
This movie was tripe. And you know that Anne stuck by Ken's side in the end which made the movie even worse. I really hated to see Joan Blondell in such a weak and pathetic role.
The crap that passes for romance. Go figure.
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