Female (1933) - (Movie Clip) Naturally Enthusiastic

Female - (Original Trailer)

Ruth Chatterton not only runs a major company but also adopts traditionally male sexual perogatives in the notorious pre-code Female (1933).

Female (1933) -- (Movie Clip) You Are A Goddess

In the just-barely pre-Code Warner Bros./First National potboiler, Ruth Chatterton as auto CEO Allison plucks a prospective boy-toy (Philip Reed) from her staff, then reconsiders, in one of a handful of pictures shot at the famous Frank Lloyd Wright Ennis House in LA, in Female, 1933.

Female (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Drake Motor Car

First scene directed by Michael Curtiz (presumably, though others contributed without credit) establishes a standard American car company and it's unusual CEO, the chairman and daughter of the founder, Allison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), Lois Wilson her visiting friend, in Female, 1933.