MEN may do the bossing- but the girls make their own plans for them!
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, Mary Forbes, Frances Moffett
MEN may do the bossing- but the girls make their own plans for them!
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a …
1h 17m
December 12, 1931
Dorothy Arzner
Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Comedy
Yes, on Criterion Channel