{"id":5277,"date":"2008-02-11T20:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2021-01-31T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:15:24","slug":"she-married-her-boss-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5277","title":{"rendered":"She Married Her Boss (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound like a marriage to me &#8212; it sounds like an incorporation!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/She-Married-Her-Boss-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/She-Married-Her-Boss-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/She-Married-Her-Boss-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/She-Married-Her-Boss-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/She-Married-Her-Boss-Poster.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn executive secretary (Claudette Colbert) who is secretly in love with her overworked boss (Melvyn Douglas) convinces him to marry her, but soon finds that he&#8217;s disappointed by her choice to run his household rather than stay at the office.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Career-versus-Marriage<\/li>\n<li>Claudette Colbert Films<\/li>\n<li>Cross-Class Romance<\/li>\n<li>Melvyn Douglas Films<\/li>\n<li>Romantic Comedy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s unclear why Peary includes this mediocre Gregory La Cava screwball comedy in his book as &#8220;must see&#8221;, given that it&#8217;s clearly one of the famed director&#8217;s lesser efforts. The primary problem lies in the film&#8217;s implausible, underdeveloped script, which is based on a decidedly weak premise: Douglas and Colbert&#8217;s marriage rings false from the start (why is Colbert in love with such a dull, insipid man?), while the convenient &#8220;other man&#8221; (Michael Bartlett) waiting in the wings to &#8220;rescue&#8221; Colbert from her loveless marriage never really seems to pose a serious threat. With that said, <em>She Married Her Boss<\/em> isn&#8217;t a chore to sit through &#8212; as Peary notes, it possesses at least a few good scenes, and Colbert (despite her poorly written character) sparkles in the lead role. Also enjoyable is young Edith Fellows as Colbert&#8217;s bratty new stepdaughter Annabel, whose temerity in the face of authority reaches hilarious heights. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claudette Colbert as Julia Scott<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-colbert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-colbert.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5279\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Edith Fellows as Annabel &#8212; described by the NY Times as &#8220;nobody&#8217;s lamby pie&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-fellows.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-fellows.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5280\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Colbert being carried over the threshold of her new home by both her husband <em>and<\/em> his butler<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-threshold.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-threshold.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5281\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Colbert&#8217;s drunken carousing with store mannequins<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-drunken.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/she-married-drunken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5282\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but fans of &#8217;30s screwball comedies will likely be curious to seek it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0026986\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1935\/09\/27\/archives\/she-married-her-boss-a-brightfaced-comedy-with-claudette-colbert-at.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onfilm.chicagoreader.com\/movies\/capsules\/10921_SHE_MARRIED_HER_BOSS.html\">Chicago Reader Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound like a marriage to me &#8212; it sounds like an incorporation!&#8221; Synopsis: An executive secretary (Claudette Colbert) who is secretly in love with her overworked boss (Melvyn Douglas) convinces him to marry her, but soon finds that he&#8217;s disappointed by her choice to run his household rather than stay at the office. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Career-versus-Marriage Claudette Colbert Films Cross-Class Romance Melvyn Douglas Films Romantic Comedy Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: It&#8217;s unclear why Peary includes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5277\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67333,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/67333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}