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Jean Arthur Comedy Collection The Public Menace /Adventure In Manhattan /More Than A Secretary /The Impatient Years 1935 Actors:George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell Directors:Edward Ludwig, Erle C. Kenton, Alfred E. Green, Irving Cummings Jean Arthur stars as a manicurist on an ocean liner who falls in love with a cocky reporter who's come aboard in hot pursuit of a notorious gangster, in the comedic crime caper "The Public Menace" (1935). George Murphy, Do... more »uglass Dumbrille, George McKay also star. Next, it's an "Adventure in Manhattan" (1936) when a journalist (Joel McCrea) with a talent for predicting crimes gets involved with an actress (Arthur) who's been hired to put one over on him. But the pair is soon mixed up in trying to stop an art gallery heist perpetrated by Arthur's producer (Reginald Owen). With Thomas Mitchell, Victor Kilian. Arthur is "More Than a Secretary" (1936) in a delightful romantic romp about the unlikely attraction that develops between an administrative assistant and the sexist magazine mogul (George Brent) she works for. Lionel Stander co-stars. And, a soldier (Lee Bowman) and his young bride (Arthur) try to make their marriage work despite only having known each other for a few days before he was shipped off to fight in World War II, in "The Impatient Years" (1944). With Charles Coburn, Edgar Buchanan. 5 ¼ hrs. on four-discs. Fullscreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.« less