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Hi Mike,

as you probably know it was this one:-

Lucy Meets John Wayne

Season 5- Episode Number 119
Original air date:- November 21st. 1966

Filmed during the making of The War Wagon

I have this episode, it is very funny,
Duke is featured almost throughout.

It is well worth having

I have it on VHS,
from the JWFS

Hi Bill,
I'd agree with Arthur, I actually enjoy this film,
corny but pleasant, but another step towards stardom,

His Private Secretary is a 1933 comedy film starring Evalyn Knapp and John Wayne.

I liked this film because it was creaky,over acted, and fun.
They couldn't even get the bus tooting its horn right!!

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For Showmen's Pictures
18 February 2007 | by bkoganbing (Buffalo, New York)

During a time when John Wayne was doing some B westerns and appearing in a few other films for Warner Brothers, he was apparently lent out to an independent outfit called Showmen's Pictures where he was the male lead in a comedy called His Private Secretary.

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Granted that the film doesn't exactly have the production values that one would have associated with the major studios and it can't get a better rating from me because of that. Still the performances were not bad and the Duke did a fine job in this one.

John Wayne plays the young playboy son of banker Reginald Barlow and all he has on his mind is chasing women. He's the despair of dear old dad who would like the Duke to just settle down in the family business. When he agrees to come to work, his first assignment is to get some deadbeat to cough up his loan money or foreclose.

Remember this is the Great Depression and a lot of people were in similar circumstances. But in this case the deadbeat is minister Alec B. Francis who has a pretty granddaughter Evelyn Knapp and with the Duke it's always pleasure before business.

Because Knapp doesn't immediately fall for his line and shows a serious side he's not seen in many women, Wayne is really taken with her. I think I need not say more because if you've seen thirties type comedies you know where this is heading.

The interesting thing to speculate is if this film had been the product of one of the major studios and had been given production values and a distribution level commiserate with same, what kind of turn John Wayne's career might have taken.

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Author: jfg1-1 from Lawrenceville, GA

This light-hearted romantic comedy. Wayne had not yet developed into the man we would know as "Duke", but he definitely had presence. There are signs, though. Near the end of the movie, where "Dick" confronts his father about the woman he married, we see a hint of what is to become.

Richard (Dick) Wallace is a playboy whose father wants him to straighten up and join the family business, but Dick only wants to have a good time. He meets Marion and falls in love with her. He trades his car for a gas station in order to stay in the town she lives in to be near her, and convinces her to marry him. But, his father will not be convinced that Marion is not a gold digger. She sets out to prove to the old man that she is different, and does. Dick, however, has not yet changed, and suffers the consequences of his folly.

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"The movie is a bit choppy, and the plot is weak in places. Some of the supporting roles could have been stronger. Never-the-less, it is fun to watch John Wayne as the ne'er-do-well son of a rich man, and get his come-uppance at the hands of the preacher's granddaughter.

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father,
who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed.
She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.

Full Cast
Evalyn Knapp .... Marion Hall
John Wayne .... Dick Wallace
Reginald Barlow .... Mr. Wallace
Alec B. Francis .... Rev. Hall
Arthur Hoyt .... Little
Natalie Kingston .... Polly
Patrick Cunning .... Van, Polly's Brother
Al St. John .... Garage Owner Tom
Hugh Kidder .... Jenkins, the Butler
Mickey Rentschler .... Joe

Writing Credits
Lewis D. Collins story
Jack Natteford adaptation and continuity

Cinematography
Abe Scholtz

Goofs
* Continuity: When Dick and Marion first meet at the gas station she is by the rear left fender of his car, talking to the attendant on the other side, yet when Dick adjusts the rear view mirror we see Marion's full face instead of a left profile. Then Marion turns her back on the mirror, but when Dick adjusts it downward, we see the front of Marion's feet and legs instead of the back. Only when the camera backs off does Marion turn around and face Dick and the mirror.

Filming Location
New York City, New York, USA

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