The Social Secretary
Cast & Crew
John Emerson
Norma Talmadge
Kate Lester
Helen Weer
Gladden James
Herbert Frank
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Synopsis
Bosses find Mayme irresistible, so she goes from one secretarial job to another fighting off their advances. To solve the problem, she decides to work for a woman, and gets a job as Mrs. Von Puyster's social secretary. As a precaution, however, against any romantic notions that Mrs. Von Puyster's dissolute son Jimmie may have, she makes herself as ugly as possible. Endearing herself to Mrs. Von Puyster, Mayme goes about reforming Jimmie, and also saves her employer's daughter Elsie from marrying a fortune-hunting count. Jimmie then discovers that Mayme has been disguising herself as an old maid, and after he sees how she really looks, he convinces her to marry him, thereby delighting Mrs. Von Puyster, who is willing to lose Mayme as a secretary if it means gaining her as a daughter-in-law.
Director
John Emerson
Cast
Norma Talmadge
Kate Lester
Helen Weer
Gladden James
Herbert Frank
Eric Von Stroheim
Nathaniel Sack
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Notes
A re-edited version of The Social Secretary was released in 1924 (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.5214). According to modern sources, in addition to acting in the film, Erich von Stroheim worked as an assistant director.
