In Honor of Secretary's Day: Great Secretaries of the Past 100 Years

Judy, Violet and Doralee
They may be lousy secretaries. They may even try to kill you with rat poison, but Nine to Five's Judy, Violet and Doralee (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton, above) can certainly make you laugh. And in 1980, the three were a box-office dream team, turning the film's title into a rallying cry for administrative assistants everywhere, because workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'.

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