She Had to Say Yes (1933)
July 15, 1933Release Date
She Had to Say Yes (1933)
July 15, 1933Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Loretta Young
Florence Denny
Winnie Lightner
Maizee
Lyle Talbot
Daniel Drew
Hugh Herbert
Luther Haines
Regis Toomey
Tommy Nelson
George Amy
Director
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Sol Glass
Busby Berkeley
Director
Suzanne Kilborn
Birdie Reynolds
John Larkin
Writer
Helen Ware
Mrs. Haines
Rian James
Writer
Harold Waldridge
Glass' Office Boy
Don Mullaly
Writer
Charles Lane
Mr. Bernstein (uncredited)
Arthur L. Todd
Cinematographer
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Details.
Wiki.
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 it was released.