Advertising executive Rosalind Russell requires a private secretary; struggling artist Fred MacMurray requires a job. He accepts the position, his financial straits forcing him to acquiesce to such subsidiary duties as posing as Roz's fiance to allay the suspicions of clients' wives; and flirting with these same wives to grease the business wheels. "His ambiguous position, his demeaning duties, and the reactions they arouse...(the winks and nods and knowing glances of subordinates and tradespeople)...would gladden the collective heart of female secretaries everywhere" (Molly Haskell). Though the end result is the inevitable, the burlesque here lies in the snappy dialogue, and a host of foils that include Robert Benchley as the eccentric head of the advertising firm, MacDonald Carey as a misogynistic tobacco tycoon, and Constance Moore as a flirtatious heiress. (JB)