Model Wife (1941) DVD-R

Starring Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Lee Bowman, Lucile Watson, Ruth
Donnelly, Billy Gilbert
Directed by Leigh Jason

Print: black/white
Runtime: 78 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks
when they costarred in Model Wife. The story is "Working Girl Plot No. 6": Blondell's
employer frowns upon married women working. She's married to Powell. The marriage
must remain secret. The boss has a "thing" for Blondell. So does every other man. Powell
fumes. Complications. Movie ends happily. And that's Model Wife, the second and last of the
Powell/Blondell vehicles of the 1940s (the other film was titled, significantly, I Want a
Divorce).