The Social Secretary
(1916) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Norma Talmadge, Kate Lester, Helen Weir, Gladden James, Herbert French, Eric von Stroheim (Erich von Stroheim) [reporter], Nathaniel Sack

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. / Released 17 September 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 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 International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [28mm reduction positive], in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive], in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute film archive [160 feet of 9.5mm reduction positive], in the Cinemateca do Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, film archive [16mm reduction positive], and in the Film Preservation Associates film collection (Blackhawk Films collection).

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

Listing updated: 30 November 2004.

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