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The Social Secretary
Also known as La Secrétaire particulière in France
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Norma Talmadge [Mayme], Kate Lester [Mrs. Peabody-de Puyster], Helen Weer (Helen Weir) [Elsie de Puyster], Gladden James [Jimmie de Puyster], Herbert Frank [Count Limonittiez], Eric von Stroheim (Erich von Stroheim) [Adam Buzzard, the reporter], Nathaniel Sack

The Fine Arts Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Scenario by Anita Loos, John Emerson and Alfred Huger Moses Jr. Assistant director, Erich von Stroheim. / No copyright registration. Released 17 September 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was reedited and released in the USA in 1924.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4120.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive]; in the George Eastman Museum film archive [28mm reduction positive, 35mm positive]; in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [incomplete 9.5mm reduction positive (160 feet)]; in the Cinemateca do Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, film archive [16mm reduction positive]; and in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates (Blackhawk Films collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Disguises - Newspapers: Reporters - Nobility - Secretaries - Sexual harassment

Listing updated: 18 March 2012.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4120; Everson-American p. 122; Lahue-Triangle pp. 141, 190; Limbacher-Feature p. 227 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM; Website-NFPF; Website-Talmadge.

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