[Bounci]

This week's video comes from the film The Best of Everything (1959), which starred Hope Lange, Diane Baker and Suzy Parker as three young secretaries who aspired to better things in work and love, and showed what life was like in the office workplace at that time. This included the office lech (played here by Brian Aherne), a happy drunkard who tried his luck with many of the secretaries. In this scene he is in his element at a office party, approaching two young women (sadly unknown) and attempting to ply them with alcohol. But his target is too well brought up to accept alcohol. "Ginger ale, please," she tells him. "Nonsense! This is a celebration. You can't possibly want..." he begins, but taking one look he realizes he's wasting his time and moves on - but not before giving her bum a slap as he walks off, giving the startled newcomer a taste of what to expect in her job in the office back then.