Zeus

Female (1933)

• Directors
  • Michael Curtiz
  • William Dieterle(uncredited)
  • William A. Wellman(uncredited)
• Writers
  • Gene Markey(screen play)
  • Kathryn Scola(screen play)
  • Donald Henderson Clarke(suggested by a story by)
• Stars
  • Ruth Chatterton
  • George Brent
  • Lois Wilson

  Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day. In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she frequently finds among the ranks of her own employees and executives; the problem is that these men can't abide the fact that back at work, she's all business again; and she keeps having to get their long, mopey faces out of her presence by transferring them elsewhere. Then she meets Jim Thorne (George Brent), a gifted engineer who is attracted to Drake but isn't a callow, kowtowing yes-man, and isn't awed by her millions. After a few awkward encounters, they find a balance in their lives together, or so she thinks, until he proposes marriage.