Behind Office Doors

Mary Linden runs a paper company from the desk outside the office while her boss takes the credit and the women, and a rival sees what she is worth. Mary Astor plays competence without asking for sympathy, and the film, without meaning to, records what the executive floor looked like and how the woman outside it was expected to behave. Robert Ames and Ricardo Cortez. Seventy minutes made to fill a bill, directed plainly by Melville Brown. For Astor, and for the office. RKO, 1931.