It would be a long time after this before John Wayne exchanged his cowboy hat for a suit and tie, and a horse for a beautiful woman. This low-budgeted comedy is sometimes difficult to watch because of the poor quality, but for the most part, it is fairly entertaining. Wayne plays a wealthy playboy forced by his domineering father (Reginald Barlow) to go to work, and in the process, he meets, falls in love with, and marries the granddaughter of a poor preacher. Pops doesn't want to meet his new daughter-in-law and disowns Wayne, but the wife (pretty Evelyn Knapp) gets the upper hand by going to work for Barlow as his new secretary. Not realizing who she really is, Barlow comes to depend on her, and actually becomes almost a human being when she is around. But what will happen when he learns the truth? Wayne and Knapp are charming, but Barlow's character is melodramatically stereotypical and one dimensional that the plot seems forced.
Review of His Private Secretary
