Female is a 1933 Warner Bros. pre-Code film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent.

Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) is the wealthy owner and hard-driving, no-nonsense head of a large automobile company, inherited from her father.

Alison hosts a party at her mansion, but becomes fed up with the men out to either sell her things or marry her for her money.

To their mutual astonishment, he turns out to be Jim Thorne (George Brent), a gifted engineer she has ordered her underlings to hire away from her competition.

She sets up an appointment to meet with bankers in New York City, but then breaks down when she realizes that she cannot live without Jim.

[2][4] Mordaunt Hall wrote that "although it possesses its reprehensible moments, it has the saving grace of having been produced with a sense of humor.