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Title: The Social Secretary


Date: 1916
Type: Drama / Comedy
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Black and White / Silent
Director: John Emerson
Producer: D W Griffith

Comment
An attractive secretary (Norma Talmadge) keeps changing jobs due to unwanted attention from her male bosses, so she gets a job with wealthy family by pretending to be frumpy and becomes an important part of the family. This is a lively, entertaining film a woman trying to make her way in the wolrd through her ability and not her looks that is well played by Norma Talmadge in the lead role.

Actors

Norma TalmadgeNorma Talmadge
Kate Lester
Hele Weir
Gladden James
Erich von StroheimErich von Stroheim

Oscars

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