She Had to Say Yes(Movie, 1933)

Name: She Had to Say Yes
Genre: Romance / Love, Drama
Released: 1933
Duration: T01:5:00

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

She Had To Say Yes is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by George Amy and Busby Berkeley. It was Berkley's directorial debut. Loretta Young stars as a secretary who receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients. The film was promoted with the teaser "We apologize to the men for the many frank revelations made by this picture, but we just had to show it as it was filmed. The true story of the working girl." According to pre-Code scholar Thomas Doherty, it was part of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression. A repeated theme in women's pictures in the Depression was the "threat of sexual violation" and the "hard necessity of risking virtue to keep a paycheck". Women of that time were often subjected to sexual harassment, and had to endure indignities in a highly competitive job market. The film received a negative review in The New York Times when i... ()

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About She Had to Say Yes

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: First National Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 5 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Portuguese (PT)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/15/1933

Cast: Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey, Charles Lane, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Helen Ware, Hugh Herbert

Director: George Amy, Busby Berkeley

Director of Photography: Arthur L. Todd

Composer: Leo F. Forbstein

Keywords: new york city, great depression, pre-code, engagement, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, male domination

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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She Had to Say Yes(Movie, 1933)

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