Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

FIVE WIVES, THREE SECRETARIES, AND ME began after the 25 year-old filmmaker Tessa Blake decided to turn her camera on her father, the 84 year-old Texas oil tycoon and lawyer Thomas Blake. Famous for his eccentricities as well as his penchant for brief marriages, Mr. Blake has few regrets about his life, except for perhaps the odd girl that got away. Through the film, Ms. Blake documents her extended family and interviews her father's secretaries, taking a decidedly unaffected look at the lives of Texas' super-rich. Though her intent may seem somewhat malicious, through the course of the film it becomes evident that this is not the case at all; Ms. Blake simply sees the extraordinary situation she was born into and has documented it for the rest of the world to see.