Starring Loretta Young, who manages to be pawed by Regis Toomey, Lyle Talbot, and Hugh Herbert, all in the same movie. Unlock. Featured Products TCM Annual Catalog: 2019 Edition. Watch Options. Cancel Series Recording. Where to Watch. She Had to Say Yes. Famed bridal designer and “Say Yes To The Dress” star Hayley Paige has officially been replaced at her own brand, Page Six has learned. Buy. The male characters in the 1933 film are obviously pursuing Florence for sex, and distrust a woman who professes innocence. Restart. With misogyny and sexual violence back in the headlines, now seems to be the perfect time to reflect on how ancient these related practices are with a viewing of the nearly 90-year-old pre-Coder She Had to Say Yes.The directorial debut of both Busby Berkeley and the film’s editor, George Amy, She Had to Say Yes is without a doubt the most degenerate pre-Code film I have ever seen. An expose on the life of the customer's girl, the Depression era's version of a high class call girl in business circles. Pre-Code movies are such a strange mix of truly liberated, with powerful women in control of their own lives and sexualities, and profoundly Puritan, with women who so much as appear to have done anything remotely sexual condemned and tossed on the trash heap of fallen women.She Had to Say Yes is the latter, through and through. Winnie Lightner Maizie. Modify Recording. $5.95. Subscribe. She Had to Say Yes - DVD-R (1933) for $20.00 from OLDIES.com Drama A secretary receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients. Directed by George Amy, Busby Berkeley. She Had to Say Yes, AKA The Patriarchy in a Mere 60 Minutes!. - Order by … See Full Cast It is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. She Had to Say Yes. Loretta Young Florence Denny. Modify Series Recording. Loretta Young Lyle Talbot Regis Toomey The Farmer's Daughter DVD $14.96 The Ghost And Mrs. Muir DVD $11.21 Film Noir Collection DVD $8.95 1933; 1 hr 4 mins Comedy NR Watchlist. She Had to Say Yes makes an interesting contrast to She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) relative to pre- and post-Code romantic films. Cast See All. She Had to Say Yes is a pre-Code film so outrageous that it's bound to bother men and women alike. Lyle Talbot Danny Drew. Seems the … She Had to Say Yes was Busby Berkeley’s reward for jobs well done at choreographing the musical scenes in the classics 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 (both also 1933). Rent/Buy. Rent. A clothing manufacturer hires models for his clothes but also uses them as customer girls to “entertain” ( strong air quotes here ) his clients. But “She Had To Say Yes” is such an eye-opening, jaw-dropping discovery, its twisted sexual philosophy had me on a roller coaster ride for all I’m worth. Delete Recording. Set Parental Lock. According to Berkeley biographer Jeffrey Spivak, production chief Darryl F. Zanuck had promised Berkeley a directorial assignment if 42nd Street was a hit. With Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey. More Actions. Add to Favorites. She Had to Say Yes.