Bechdel Test? What Bechdel Test?
That's what I love about this movie. Say what you want about its dated misconceptions about computers, but it's the kind of film that would take a look at the Bechdel Test, giggle, and hop over that bar like it was a line of matchboxes. All the women are intelligent, all have personal lives that definitely include men but do not revolve around them, and while the characters certainly gossip, it's not in the catty, destructive style of a Clare Boothe Luce script. And this was in the 1950s!
Desk Set isn't my all-time favorite movie, but it's had a special resonance for me. I worked briefly as a fact-checker, and while I usually answered the phone with either "hello" or the name of the publication, in my mind I was saying, "Reference, Miss Watson." 😃