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The Criterion Collection has a new series running called Office Romances, about the popular movies from the 1930s through the 1950s dealing with “the ever growing number of working women” that catalyzed a new spin on the romantic comedy “where meet-cutes come amid desks and typewriters, and the course of true love is entangled with office politics and professional rivalry”…. But take it from me, if you actually watch a lot of these films, what’s most striking about some of them is the rabid sexism such topics unleash in the moviemakers.