I've always been a Theodore Bikel fan and enjoyed this outing. I especially liked his relationship with the little girl. But I got sidetracked by the business about the male secretaries. Some kind of Women's Lib, Columbia wonders. No, the receptionist tells him. The firm only hires young men as secretaries because they are junior accountants who are getting more training in preparation for promotion. Evidently women were not considered qualified to become accountants, so they were not eligible to be secretaries to the firm's owners.
It took me back to real life circa 1977, when a friend who worked at a savings and loan used to train young men for higher positions. She would have liked to be promoted a higher position herself and she was obviously qualified for it. One day her boss told her that the reason that she had never been promoted was that she was too valuable to him in her current position and he was "too selfish" to part with her. He probably thought she would be flattered. She sued him for discriminiation instead. And won. Now that is Women's Lib.
Fun to see Jamie Lee Curtis as a waitress with an attitude
It took me back to real life circa 1977, when a friend who worked at a savings and loan used to train young men for higher positions. She would have liked to be promoted a higher position herself and she was obviously qualified for it. One day her boss told her that the reason that she had never been promoted was that she was too valuable to him in her current position and he was "too selfish" to part with her. He probably thought she would be flattered. She sued him for discriminiation instead. And won. Now that is Women's Lib.
Fun to see Jamie Lee Curtis as a waitress with an attitude