Female

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.

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.

CEO Allison (Ruth Chatterton) is receiving a massage, college friend Harriet (Lois Wilson) and handsome young employee Cooper (Johnny Mack Brown), in Female, 1933, directed by Michael Curitz.

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