Working Girls (1931)

Directors

Dorothy Arzner

Cast

Alberta Vaughn, Charles Rogers, Claire Dodd, Dorothy Manley, Dorothy Stickney, Frances Dee, Judith Wood, Mary Forbes, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin

The story

Two unsophisticated and undereducated sisters from Indiana, Mae (age 20) and June (age 19) Thorpe, move into the Rolfe charity apartment building for homeless girls in New York City. June applies for a job as a stenographer with scientist Joseph von Schrader, even though his advertisement clearly states it requires a good education, with college preferred. During the interview, June reveals that she never even started high school, then runs downstairs to fetch Mae, who has “a good education.” Von Schrader asks if Mae speaks French or German.

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