female

March 6 movie: Female. Another great pre-code movie. Ironically, just the day before watching this I read a post on Shakesville complaining about sexist use of the word female as a noun. This movie starred Ruth Chatterton as the president of an auto manufacturer. She's a tough as nails CEO who seduces every handsome employee, and then transfers the poor suckers to Peoria if they get too attached. Then she falls for inventor George Brent, which is actually a pretty decent story about valuing corporate strength vs. emotional strength. Unfortunately the last minute of the movie ruins it all -- as you would expect from a movie like this. Just turn it off when Brent says "No one's going to take your company away from you" and it's a great movie.