Red-Headed Woman | Sirens and Spitfires: Liberated Ladies of Pre-Code Cinema

Lillian "Red" Andrews (Jean Harlow) is a small-town girl with big ambitions. Employed as a stenographer with the Legendre Company, she becomes ruthlessly committed to breaking up her boss Bill's marriage. But she doesn't stop there. Leveraging her next affair, with businessman Charles B. Gaerste, Lil forces society to take her seriously, but Bill catches onto her scheming and hires a private detective to follow her to New York. Based on the novel by Katharine Brush, Red-Headed Woman's original script was penned in part by F. Scott Fitzgerald but was later rewritten, at the urging of MGM's Irving Thalberg, by Anita Loos—the first woman staff screenwriter in Hollywood. [79 min; comedy, drama, romance; English]