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Behind Office Doors (1931)
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Starring: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Robert Cortez
Director: Melville W. Brown
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Studio: Roan Group
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Length:
82 mins

 
 

 

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Mary Astor is at her dazzlingly beautiful best in Behind Office Doors (1931), one of a handful of films she made for RKO in the early Thirties.

She's cast as Mary Linden, the able secretary of a paper company executive played by Robert Ames. She silently and secretly guides his career, out of devotion to him, but tires of being taken for granted. Wales (Robert Cortez) sees his opportunity and makes his advances on Astor. Will Ames see the error of his ways and his assistant's true love?

Written by Carey Wilson (Ben Hur, 1926), from a novel by Alan Brener Schultz, and directed by Melville Brown, Behind Office Doors was a hit when released in 1931.

At the time of Behind Office Doors, Mary Astor was still a couple years away from her affair with noted playwright George S. Kaufman, an affair chronicled in her diary, which her husband used as evidence in their divorce and child custody trial. Her career survived the scandal, thanks largely to Dodsworth (1936), and she would go on to do some of her best work: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942) and A Kiss Before Dying (1956).