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What is unusual about the workplace roles in Take a Letter, Darling?
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In the 1942 film Take a Letter, Darling, directed by Mitchell Leisen, the workplace roles are unusual because they feature a gender-role reversal: the film stars Rosalind Russell as a high-powered advertising executive who employs a man, played by Fred MacMurray, as her secretary.1