Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

May Robson: Mimi Stanhope

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• Mimi : My dear, men are like that. So honorable and able and wise in some things and just like naughty children in others. You wouldn't blame a little boy for stealing a piece of candy if left alone in a room with a whole boxful, would you?

• Mimi : I haven't been one to give you much advice in the past, have I dear?

  Linda : You've been an absolutely model mother-in-law, Mimi.

  Mimi : All right, then I'm going to give you some now. Get rid of that secretary of Van's.

  Linda : Miss Wilson? Van couldn't live without her.

  Mimi : I hope not with her.

• Mimi : You know, my dear, I've seen much more of the world than you have - and more of the Stanhope men. Van is very like his father: warm-hearted, impulsive, active... and temptation ought not to be put in their way.

  Linda : Mimi, darling, all Van's life is spent with attractive women... not only Miss Wilson, but the girls who model dresses, the lovely actresses whose pictures he runs.

• Mimi : I see your point of view, dear, and it's all very modern and noble. Nevertheless, I advise you to get rid of Miss Wilson!

  Linda : Never. She's as important to him downtown as I am to him uptown.

• Linda : Oh, Mimi, you were so right. Oh, I'm so unhappy.

  Mimi : The secretary.

  Linda : Yes!