Private Number
Private Number
| 05 June 1936 (USA)
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Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

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SparkMore

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

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InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Casey Duggan

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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Kirandeep Yoder

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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JohnHowardReid

The first half of this movie is better than the last, though Peverell Marley's photography is always a joy to look at, and Mark- Lee Kirk's sets (decorated by Thomas Little) are always wonderful to behold! And there's also a fine music score by Louis Silvers! The performances are never less than great, and the direction by Roy Del Ruth is always highly commendable. I would regard this entry as his best film. Of course, he did have a marvelous cast to work with! And it's true that the first half of the movie is more enjoyable than the last, because that's when we're introduced to people like Basil Rathbone's delightfully tyrannical butler; to Patsy Kelly's running interference; and to Joe Lewis and his idea of the perfect first date - and a blind one at that! In the first half, director Del Ruth stages a really wonderful brawl, which he caps by a glorious scene in which the GOODY TWO-SHOES HEROINE IS ARRESTED IN A BROTHEL! (I say again: This movie is a product of the moral clamp-down? Who's kidding who here!)From first to last, Peverell Marley's photography is always a joy to behold. Ditto Mark-Lee Kirk's sets (decorated by Thomas Little). And, joining the fine performances and the highly commendable direction, we must pay tribute to the screenplay concocted by Gene Markey and William Conselman from a story by Cleves Kinkead.

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marbleann

I caught this movie on FOX . I love these old flicks. Lorreta Young plays a maid working for the woman of the house. You know there is going to be a problem because in the beginning Young runs into this man and they flirt with each other. It turns out he is the son of her employer. In the meantime we meet the Basil Rathborn character who plays the Butler, the supervisor of the staff. It doesn't take long for us to see what kind of weasel he is. You see he is pocketing part of the checks of the staff. One poor guy asks if he can not take any money out for one week because of a family problem, the weasel tells him no. But as soon as the Lortta Young character comes to get her pay we see he fancies her and is willing to help her. She goes out with a fellow maid played by Patsy Kely the sense and brains of the movie. THey go to meet a date and trouble ensues when one gets in a fight. Lorreta Youngs purse gets swiped and she is without any money to get home. The man who swiped her wallet offers to help her. They end up going to his "grandmas" some house of ill repute. ANother raid happens she gets arrested and calls the weasel to bail her out. He does..BIG MISTAKE. She goes to Maine with the family for the summer and she and the son fall in love and secretly get married. Here lies the problem the weasel is mad because Young rejected him so he has another girlfriend. He finds out about Young being pregnant and tells her employer. They are shocked to find out it is the sons kid. The mother seems pretty cool it is the father that is the real bastard. The mother likes Loreta Young only when the WEASLE tells the secret about him bailing her out does the mother get alarmed. Now the family thinks she is just a floozy looking for money and soon the son believes it too. She has the baby and seems to be doing well until Gracie, her maid friend, who quit when she heard her employers talking bad about Young shows her a newspaper about her being a gold digger. After she gets served with divorce papers. They begin a war now. Fire with Fire. I am not going to tell the end. All Iam going to say is that we get the usual march in time newspaper headlines and there is a trial. This is a good role for Lorreta Young and a very young Robert Taylor as the son. Basil Rathborn plays the perfect weasel and Patsy Kelly plays a friend we all would love to have. She is loyal and even risks her job for her friend. She sticks with her after she has the baby and gets her a lawyer and tells her to fight..her kid is being called bastards now. Patsy brings along her crazy friends for the ride. She is the star of the movie IMHO. Very good movie wish I could get on DVD. Also Lorreta Young is suppose to be 17 she looks around 27 This is a movie made after code but I am very surprised.

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Nubian-3

I caught this film for the very first time,as I can remember,on Fox Movie Channel.The lead actor was listed as Tyronne Power instead of Robert Taylor.I don't know whether the fault lies with TV Guide or the cable channel.Maybe both.I enjoyed watching a young Loretta Young,one of my favorites.The storyline deals with a maid who falls in love,marries and has a baby for her employers son.Basil Rathbone,another one of my favs,plays the wicked butler who cooks up a devilish plot to have her arrested and and discredited in the eyes of her employers and fired.This old black and white charm took me way back to my childhood days watching Ms Young's television show with similar stories.Released way back in the 1930's,it is a jewel of a picture.Can you believe TV Guide even had it listed as a comedy?

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cphillips5

Roy Del Ruth delivers another firecracker entertainment. Loretta Young is a gorgeous, working girl along the lines of Ann Sothern's Maisie character. She rightfully wins the love of rich boy Robert Taylor with support from a feisty Patsy Kelly and interference from a deliciously snakey Rathbone. There's a perverse sexual undercurrent in Rathbone's performance that's a joy to watch. A pre-code gem!

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