Week-End Marriage is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Loretta Young.

[2][3][4] Lola Davis is enamored with her beau Ken Hayes, whose old fashioned morals dictate he earn enough to support a family before asking her to marry him.

At her supremely modern sister-in-law Agnes' encouragement, Lola employs methods of passive aggressive manipulation in order to convince him to marry her immediately despite his plans.

After a minor amount of resistance to Agnes' plans Lola caves and plays along just enough to encourage Ken to open the subject of whether or not she agrees with him that it's a good idea for him to take the role in Buenos Aires.

The reality is that Jim deeply resents Agnes for not serving him in a more domestic manner, and constantly antagonizes her for having "tricked" him into marrying her.

A year into the marriage she's told by her employer, Mr. Jameson, that her work has been so impressive that he's decided to give her additional responsibilities and a raise which will bring her income to $40 per week-- the same rate received by her husband.

During this time Lola begins being friendly with another coworker, a man named Peter Acton who works at their company's St. Louis location.

Unfortunately, one of Lola's friends (Connie) begs her to accompany her in order to convince her guardian (Joe) to let her keep working when they're married.

As she leaves the office Peter Acton once again attempts to flirt with her, but she hurries out while dropping blatant signals that he should quit it, causing him and Mr. Jameson to share a laugh at his behavior.

This starts an argument where Ken insists that he will not go to St. Louis, complains that she has failed him as a wife and points out that he missed out on a similar opportunity in order to marry her.

The doctor shames Lola for having abandoned him, saying that men require old fashioned women to feed and care for them since they are incapable of doing it themselves for unspecified reasons.

The unnamed woman voluntarily leaves after agonizing outside his door during this entire exchange, telling Ken to get well now that he's got his wife home.