Locations Manager(s): Richard Baratta Working Girl Filming Locations: The movies office building was filmed on the 21st floor of the 1, State Street Plaza. With Emily Somers, Gregory Zarian, Geordie Robinson, Elijah Ungvary. Griffith gives the fullest performance of her career; Weaver, the most likable, even though she's the villain of the piece. It was also directed by Stephanie Rothman, one of the first female exploitation directors who helmed a couple of interesting WIP flicks, "Terminal Island" and "Sweet Sugar", and one honest-to-god good movie, "The Velvet Vampire". Locations Manager(s): Richard Baratta Working Girl Filming Locations: The movies office building was filmed on the 21st floor of the 1, State Street Plaza. Written by CBC Michael Nichols directs his best film in years. But “Working Girl” is the other side of the coin. Working Girl is a 1988 movie about a secretary, Tess Mcgill, played by Melanie Griffith, who is dominated and sexually harassed by her male bosses; screwed over by her female boss; and then finally escapes all that and becomes an independent executive. The elevator lobby scenes at Tess's firm were shot in 7 World Trade Center, with the red Calder sculpture visible through the glass doors. Together the friends fearlessly confront the polarizing and unexpected realities of being working moms. (This film is a cinematic feminist thesis by comparison). Working Girls is a good film and well worth a look. More quotes from Working Girl Trivia This was an inside joke reference to "Gorillas in the Mist" which Sigourney Weaver had just finished filming and was released only three months before this movie. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1989. Working Girls is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and written by Zoë Akins, based on the play Blind Mice, written by Vera Caspary and Winifred Lenihan.The film stars Judith Wood, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin, and Frances Dee.The film was released on December 12, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. Directed to an office, she sees a woman on the phone, assumes she is her new boss, and seats herself at the secretary station. Tess starts her new job, armed with a lunchbox prepared by Jack. Structurally, the film has some parallels with “The Graduate,” Nichols’ 1967 classic - including a climactic scene where an important ceremony is interrupted by the wrong person bursting in through the door. Directed by Gil Marsden. Despite some average acting the characters are so fascinating and dialog so engaging that the film had my attention all throughout which says much because there are many higher budgeted films with very large budgets and top talent that covered the same subject and not nearly as well. And sweet, former sorority girl Jenny seeks an uncharacteristically reckless awakening.