Private Secretary Volume 2

Starring: Ann Sothern and Don Porter

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.Cat In A Hot Tin File: When a stray feline wanders into the office, Vi and Susie try to hide it from Peter and a hysterical, allergic actress. Watch for John Banner (Sergeant Shultz of Hogan's Heroes) as a restaurant owner.Dollars and Sense: After Susie goes on a shopping spree, she begs Vi and Peter to manage her money and keep her on a strict allowance. But the lure of the department store sale can't dampen her spendthrift ways. It takes a sleazy pawnbroker (Mel Welles) to do that!Old Dogs, New Tricks: A snooty child actor needs to be taken down a notch or two - and Susie's just the person to do it!That's No Lady, That's An Agent: Peter becomes smitten with rival talent agent Blanche Colvey (Hillary Brooke) and it's up to Susie to protect her boss from Colvey's cutthroat scheme to steal a big opera star (Sig Ruman) from the agency.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 089218475695
• Release Date: June 2005
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Gotham (DBA Alpha)
• Director: Various
• Starring: Ann Sothern, Don Porter
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

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.