A Secretary Is Not A Toy

[@kaileealtman9630]

My high school did this musical and I was in the chorus as a secretary. Years later, I now find this song hilarious and ironic because I am now an actual secretary, and currently in an office full of men! 😂

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheHManShow]

“Her pad is to write in and not spend the night in!” Very true and hilarious lol

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

🤣😂😆

[@stephaniekeyes2928]

This was a spoof/satire of big business- of its time...similar to The Apartment, and Mad Men....showcasing the hypocrisy and yes, hoping younger generations would finally speak out about it. My God its taken long enough. but oh how I love this show- and basically anything by Frank Loesser

[@blackdogdancer]

It is a one of a kind.. and pure brilliance.

[@johnconnor2753]

Your right women were so Incapable of getting together and creating their own all female company so nothing would happen

[@TheJishushika]

The old big boss in Mad Men is actually the young protagonist of this musical. He came full circle. Blew my mind when I learned this in 2010/2011.

[@mizzury54]

I don't know why but I keep playing that " I'm Bert Bratt" part over and over ... hysterical.

[@AxelQC]

Sexual harassment wasn't a term commonly used in American business until the 1990s.

[@MoiraRussell]

That bit at 4:18 where they all dance just by turning their heads and feet one way and then the other is purest Fosse.

[@hannahs1683]

I loved this movie but didn’t know Fosse was involved. Thanks for telling me! Knew there was a reason I loved it

[@MelodyTally]

I love this film so much, and I'm not even half-way through it yet. I love the dancing and the singing and of course, the tongue-in-cheek sarcasm.

[@TralfazConstruction]

I was eleven years old back in '67 when this movie was a smash. Prior to that it was a play. All of my elders talked about How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) and my parents took me and my younger brother to see it. All of the adult themes and aspects of this great film went over my head back then. It took me fifty-five years to really develop an affection for this movie. It's great. It's a time capsule of the era. Best wishes!

[@markschildberg1667]

Two geniuses that produced genius together. Frank Loesser and Bob Fosse. One of the best comedy numbers ever.

[@matthewrouge]

Basically the greatest choreography ever. TY + RIP Bob!

[@whispperson]

I Love this Musical Number from this Very Underated Classic.

[@markschildberg1667]

Underrated? It won a Pulitzer Prize.

[@PaulDavis-jb1bx]

I remember seeing this movie in my mid teens, and it was so good, I saw it 3 times in a week!!

[@jimlang7461]

A masterpiece of choreography!

[@MALP1231]

I was 18 when this premiered at the theater. I went to see it...and LOVED it! Still one of my favorites. This should be shown....every Secretary's Day! :) Sadly, this was near the end of the great movie musicals.

[@willday980]

That voice change cracks me up!

[@TheJishushika]

I will forever love this song and dance (2023)

[@keldonmcfarland2969]

I just realized that this is "Mad Men: The Musical."

[@hebneh]

For 1967, this entire production was very old-fashioned, considering the was the same time as the so-called “Summer of Love” hippie period in San Francisco. Pop culture was changing very fast but this was a relic of what was getting outdated quickly.

[@peteradaniel]

Great Bob Fosse piece.

[@laminage]

And to think that this movie, Down With Love, The Best Of Everything was the Inspiration for Mad Men. Bob Fosse's legacy is still strong as ever with the Miniseries.

[@BasementBerean]

5:18 This is an abstract representation of how the striker keys are arranged in a conventional typewriter.

[@dccarletonjr]

That's a brilliant observation!

[@zackstark24601]

I was in this song i was one of the business man in my middle school production

[@sunrazor33]

You can see the Bob Fosse influence in the dancing!

[@Juliaflo]

You are blessed to have been part of a great musical. I saw this when it played at Radio City Music Hall. Don't figure out my age, but Merry Christmas.

[@GringoLatino941]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. DANCING IS FANTASTIC. MUSIC IS GREAT, THE ACTING AND DIRECTING IS EXCELLENT. I OWN THE DVD, THE BLURAY AND LASERDISC.

[@darlenecombs6270]

Great song!

[@northystwinkle6973]

i love the song and the way they dance

[@PrinceOberon87]

Love this music so funny yet lovely

[@bmhigginbotham]

I feel like I'm watching the musiscal version of Mad Men. I mean it looks like MM pulled their secretary pool right from this video.

[@laminage]

+Ben Higginbotham They probably did. Remember The Head Boss played By Robert Morse was in The Original Production of This Musical.

[@tiffanykay6060]

THE MOST EPIC CONGO LINE EVER!!! 5:17

[@scotpens]

I assume you mean conga. Congo is a country in Africa (well, two countries, actually).

[@tiffanykay6060]

@@scotpens bruh u really gonna try n be smart on a 4 year old comment? I assume you don’t go outside very often (well, at all, actually).

[@michaelb9537]

@@tiffanykay6060 dude what are you getting warmed up about? All it means is that you don’t go to Africa that often- and that’s ok.

[@michaelb9537]

5:16 entrance was my human centipede nightmare for years and I finally found where it came from and keeps on coming from

[@mesterjess]

Yeah I don't like that scene either, tbh. All the weird angles and postures in this scene make me uncomfy as it's just odd and forced. Like, primitive SJW media.

[@KatieLHall-fy1hw]

Love this show!

[@TheKrottyKid]

This is my favourite episode of Mad Men. The series really went downhill after they introduced that Don Draper character.

[@blackdogdancer]

Fosse!!!!! Brilliant.

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Just seeing this for first time, but @3:13, instantly saw Bob Fosse's hand.

[@joesot1947]

I just took a Sexual Harassment course for my job. They could have just played me this video instead. Lots of knowledge imparted here

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Gyrokun]

For real 😂

[@laminage]

I remember seeing this Movie One Afternoon then many years later seeing The Best Of Everything by Rona Jaffe. I wonder what Bob Fosse or Miss Jaffe would have thought of Mad Men.

[@chasespadavecchia3514]

3:15 lol I think frozen ripped off the opening bars to this song (their song "in summer")

[@Juliaflo]

Chances are without 'How to Succeed', there would not have been a 'Nine to Five'.

[@laminage]

We may not have had a Mad Men or Down With Love. Also let's not remember "The Best Of Everything" which was Pre-How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

[@Juliaflo]

@@laminage 'The Best of Everything'-the one with Lucille LeSueur, right? (Joan Crawford to you).

[@jetfire851]

I can only imagine Matt Weiner had this exact scene in mind when he cast Christina Hendricks as Joan in "Mad Men".

[@helencheddar]

Urgh this makes me so excited to play Hedy!

[@laminage]

I look at some of The Dancers and the remind me of The Dancers who worked with Dionne Warwick when she sang Walk On By on Ed Sullivan.

[@TralfazConstruction]

You could very well be onto something. Good catch. 👍

[@laminage]

@@TralfazConstruction Thanks so much! Did you hear that Disney acquired the Rights to The Ed Sullivan Show and Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt, and Stephanie Bennett digitally remastered the performances. They are brilliant Documentary Filmakers. They have done work on The Beatles (Unauthorized) but still brilliant, The Beach Boys and Girl Groups and in 1979 they did The Heroes Of Rock & Roll Hosted by Jeff Bridges.

[@TralfazConstruction]

@@laminage I'll eagerly await the results. I did not know this.

[@mushmorant9253]

She may not be accustomed to early "arisal", but I bet she is quite used to early arousal--so to speak.

[@princess_tamia_25]

Mush Morant lmao! 😂 I can’t!

[@nataliemeyers2626]

I feel like for all job orientations that this should be shown to new hirees.

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

That’d be amazing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@allisonarthur3089]

My aunt Maureen Arthur was a young and sexy 33 years old when she made this movie. If Marilyn Monroe had lived she would have been 41 years old - had she been cast over my Aunt. Considering that my Aunt was not a pill addict or alcoholic like Monroe, and the fact that my Aunt was and is naturally blessed with sexy curves, singing and acting talent, and was and still is a sex pot the role of Hedy LaRue was a role my aunt Maureen Arthur was born to play in film and on the Broadway stage. :-)

[@realar]

My Pops was in the pictures as well. :)

[@terrgall]

WOW!!! Love her!!

[@blackdogdancer]

She is the best part! I love her - thank you for sharing this!

[@TralfazConstruction]

The lady is a consummate actress and comedienne. Maureen Arthur commands every scene in which she appears. My best wishes to you and your Aunt Maureen Arthur.

[@laminage]

They were Socially Distancing themselves before it became part of the vernacular. They did a similar thing with The Saturdays A UK Girlband.

[@joeenglert]

at 3;28 is that guy on the left..ice from wss??

[@rickestes1660]

Yes! I couldn't place him. Ice!!

[@joeenglert]

@@rickestes1660 ya..funny..and the nerdy nephew with the glasses was also in wss but he looked alot different in that one

[@4evaheartbreakkid]

Teehee I love this song :)

[@jsaking1115]

So this is how it’s like at Activision Blizzard.

[@Skidoo22]

Somebody forgot to mention Nelson Riddle in the comments, oohhhh............

[@montrose1000]

thank you

[@wardragonprime]

I was a secretary for 22 years. I wonder if they'd hire me?

[@abinashmishra329]

Ken Burke As long as they understand that you’re not a toy

[@ShowtuneSampler]

@sunrazor33 Maybe because Bob Fosse choreographed the dances.

[@Juliaflo]

Robert Q. Lewis, in my most humble opinion, added a specific touch to the film.

[@markschildberg1667]

He was also the voice of the book in the Broadway show.

[@Sabrinaaa36]

I’m in this right now and one of the secretaries

[@laminage]

Doesn't the lady at the right remind you of Marlo Thomas (That Girl).

[@glory5918]

@ 45sec the gal in orange (left side) on the phone ~ "did you wish to see someone miss" coud be Diane Cannon

[@itzsoeasy1960]

My thoughts exactly.

[@Kayyylma0]

the heddy larue was way hotter in the play at hanford high

[@abinashmishra329]

11 people think a secretary is a toy

[@RachelDeRosier010894]

I personally think it would be funnier if Marilyn Monroe played Hedy LaRue (if she hadn't had died) and if Jerry Lewis played J. Pierpont Finch. Both can actually sing well. :)

[@jlasf]

Robert Morse was a sensation on Broadway in this role. It's one of the examples when they made the right decision and kept the original Broadway lead - like Robert Preston in "Music Man" and Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady." (Ironically, Cary Grant was approached to do both roles on screen.)

[@audioinsanity]

To all the Feminist commenters: This Feminist considers this scene to be lopsided, in favor of the women.

[@itzsoeasy1960]

Mad Men!:)

[@jaswaneon6318]

2:22

[@williamstebbins7294]

Why the black border? It was not like this on tv and another part of this movie is not like this on here. I first saw this a couple of nights ago on This TV. It started late at night so I stopped watching this and went to bed after a few other scenes.

[@mizzury54]

Can't you just enjoy the content ?

[@scotpens]

The movie was in CinemaScope. The black borders at the top and bottom (called "letterboxing") mean you're seeing the full widescreen image. If you saw the movie on television before digital HDTV, it was probably pan-and-scan. The picture filled the screen, but the sides of the widescreen image were cut off.

[@nursegrace7492]

the music is a little wretched...

[@hebneh]

I think Hedy LaRue is too old. She should’ve been in her early 20s.

[@joestewart8914]

Having worked in many business environments over my many, many years I can honestly observe that the advancement of women into the executive suites has changed absolutely nothing as far as human nature is concerned. Except that now there is a heightened level of hypocrisy, dishonesty and viciousness when a relationship turns sour. Let's just say it is much more dangerous to be a young man now than it was to be a young woman in the "sexist" culture of 50 years ago.

[@MrZo345]

I bet you're a really great guy.

[@joestewart8914]

@@MrZo345 Thanks, but I am not looking for a date. I'll be married to the same woman for 50 years this October. Good luck to you.

[@MrZo345]

@@joestewart8914 Dang! I was hoping you could help a young man like me. I'm scared! If I treat a woman as my equal will I get hurt?

[@joestewart8914]

@@MrZo345 You can do whatever you like but you're unlikely to find your equal unless she's a total idiot.

[@wambutu7679]

That is a depressingly cogent observation sir.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Obligatory Mad Men comment.

[@andrewj.mulheriniv4075]

Pure Fosse

[@Melons-vg8dq]

Those were good jobs. Benefits, regular hours. Don't believe the feminists.

[@AlwaysM0ndayy]

People didn’t complain about it being a bad job. It’s that is was one of the ONLY jobs women could do in the corporate world.

[@georgeash4008]

If some MeToo feminist watches this their head would explode. Missing the satire of course, being a humourless man hater.

[@MJUltra512]

It's a fun musical but extremely sexist at the same time.

[@fohawk871]

no crap? really? Are you sure? -_-

[@MJUltra512]

You don't have to be a sarcastic jerk.

[@fohawk871]

It's common sense

[@MJUltra512]

what was the purpose of the sarcasm? A pitiful attempt to shame me publicly??

[@fohawk871]

Maya Baker not really, but its way too common knowledge that there was an abundance of sexism back then. there was no need to point it out. I recently did this musical, and all the girls loved their parts just as much as the guys did. there was no talk like you said. This is a stupendous play and theres nothing wrong with it in my view. to say so kind of offends me a bit

[@blaq7427]

horrible musical number . It should have been cut

[@peteradaniel]

Ha, you must be joking?!?! This is the only number Bob Fosse was asked to recreate from the original stage show. It's Fosse gold on screen.

[@blaq7427]

Alex Daniel This was horrible. Its the only flaw in this otherwise genius movie

[@superaliryan]

+SUPERSPORTS Totally disagree it is brilliant!!

[@blaq7427]

Ali Ryan It is horrible . The movie is brilliant except for this eyesore

[@dante40inc.46]

+SUPERSPORTS mind explaining your thoughts why? I honestly love this song I'm just wondering