Private Secretary Volume 1

Starring: Don Porter and Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern is Susie, private secretary to talent agent Peter Sands (Don Porter), in this delightful series of comic adventures that ran on TV Sunday nights from 1953 to 1957. Susie, with long-suffering receptionist Vi Praskins (Ann Tyrrell), keeps the office of International Artists humming in the world of insecure actors, snobby writers and big-shot producers, while continuing to prove that the employees are often smarter than their employer! "Private Secretary" (AKA "Susie") was nominated for five Emmy Awards and continues to enchant all who come under Susie's lively secretarial spell.What Every Secretary Knows: Peter desperately wants to make a deal for two of his rising singing stars with an opera impresario. Susie and the maestro's wife plot to get the two bigheaded big shots together.How To Handle a Boss: Susie busts her writer's block when she asks a reporter friend to "ghost write" an article for her in a magazine. The result lands her in hot water with everybody in the office!Not Quite Paradise: Vi's Aunt Martha gets the crazy idea that her niece and Peter are engaged to be married - and that Susie is the competition that must be eliminated! Three's A Crowd: Susie finds herself in the role of "leading lady" in a love triangle with a new, eager-to-please playwright and a slick Broadway producer.

• Format: DVD
• UPC: 089218475596
• Release Date: June 2005
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Alpha Video
• Director: Oscar Rudolph
• Starring: Don Porter, Ann Sothern
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

If you knew Susie like I know Susie

In this 50's TV comedy series, the private secretary to talent agent Peter Sands (Don Porter), Susan Camille McNamara (Ann Sothern), goes out of her way to help her boss in the most convoluted schemes. Somehow, she always puts her foot in it; yet in the end, everything turns out fine. Either a victim of old age or bad memory (possibly the world has changed), I found this series to be straining for laughs. The DVD volume one contains: "Cat in a Hot Tin File" season 4 episode 15 "Dollars and Sense" season 5 episode 7 "Old Dogs, New Tricks" season 4 episode 13 "That's No Lady, That's an Agent" season 5 episode 11 There are 107 episodes to this series, 1953–1957 For some reason, they are not in order on the DVDs If you enjoyed the acting of Don Porter, then you should not miss him in the Bob Hope classic "Bachelor in Paradise" (1961). The version I watched was distributed by Alpha Video and was not remastered (it really should have been). The images do not hold up well on today's big screen TVs. Each volume contains various episodes not in order.