My Dear Secretary is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Charles Martin, starring Laraine Day and Kirk Douglas.
Owen claims he cannot have a wife and a secretary so fires his wife and goes back to his old ways, hiring an admiring and attractive female to be his secretary. In the meantime Steve takes Owens rejected manuscript to her former companion, Charles Harris Rudy Vallee, who is a major publisher. Harris, who now employs Elsie Helen Walker, Owens former secretary before Steve, also asks to see Steves manuscript.Harris finds Owens manuscript interesting but ordinary, but believes Steves manuscript to be not only worthy of publication but a serious candidate for literary prizes. Steve initially refuses publication due to hurting Owens fragile ego but soon changes her mind because of the philandering. She hires an attractive male secretary and the two writers compete with each other. ........
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