Working Girls Reviews

This typical "woman's picture" boasted the adroit hand of director Dorothy Arzner, as well as the writing talents of Zoe Akins and Vera Caspary (on whose novel LAURA [1941] was based). The plot is similar to other Akins-penned pictures and tells the story of two country girls, Dee and Wood, who head to the big city. After some misadventures they find themselves jobs and husbands. Pictures like WORKING GIRLS served their purpose back when films were separated into "men's pictures" (the gangster and western genres) and "women's pictures" (weepy melodramas and films like this one), and might now fit in with movies like NINE TO FIVE, but their obsession with finding guys for the gals makes them seem hopelessly out of date.