The Office Wife (1930)

A young secretary (Dorothy Mackaill) finds herself falling in love with her recently married boss (Lewis Stone), a workaholic who is ignoring his wife (Natalie Moorhead). Based on the novel by Faith Baldwin and directed by Lloyd Bacon (BROTHER ORCHID). A pre code film that is quite frank and unapologetic about adultery and divorce among the upper classes. Also daring is the butch writer (Dale Fuller) who is obviously a lesbian but the movie doesn't make an issue of it. It takes a little while to get used to Lewis Stone as a romantic leading man (he'll always be Judge Hardy to me) but it's an interesting artifact of its era. With a brunette Joan Blondell in her film debut, Walter Merrill, Blanche Friderici and Hobart Bosworth.