Rise of Women

Ann Harris files for divorce from Pete Bowen after two incidents involving his assistant. At a meal she saw him peel shrimp for the woman, and later he gave the woman the front passenger seat of his car. She warned him once, and he ignored it. The marriage had been a quiet one. It was arranged between the Harris and Bowen families, both of them rich, and Ann and Pete had dealt with each other politely, in the manner of business partners, with Pete keeping up a reputation as a man who kept himself in check. The Bowen family answers the divorce with a run of petty schemes. Ann meets each of them without losing her composure. She then helps Pete's mother, who has woken up to what is going on in the family, take control of the Bowen Group.