Just daring to produce a film called "The Public Stenographer" deserves some sort of respect. But even if that very flat, unemotional title matches in some way the overall plot and editing of the film, there is still a lot to enjoy including a few rare scenes that really touch the heart.
Ann and her roommate Lucy both work at a posh city hotel dodging, or choosing carefully, the interests of wealthier men as they go about there independent and busy lives. But because of a simple mistake Ann comes to know one of the hotel patrons, Jimmy, in a different way. He is head over heels, but she is much cooler.
As the screwball sparring progresses, particularly in a series of incidents with Ann's and Jimmy's automobiles and the ever-present motorcycle cop, so too progresses a scam concerning a large public works project and lots of government money.
Ann gets tied up in the possible relationship as well as a possibly disastrous professional choice, all along comforted as well as tempted by her somewhat more worldly roommate. It is the relationship these two women have and their various interactions that make this film memorable, even while the love story and financial intrigue are relatively mundane.
