The Typist Explained

The Typist
Director:	Wilhelm Thiele
Music:	Lajos Lajtai
Distributor:	Pathé-Natan
Runtime:	77 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French

The Typist (French: Dactylo) is a 1931 French comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Marie Glory, Jean Murat and Armand Bernard.^[1] It was a French-language version of the German film Die Privatsekretärin which was itself based on a novel by István Szomaházy. It was followed by a 1934 sequel The Typist Gets Married.

The film's sets were designed by Otto Hunte and Franz Koehn.

Cast

• Marie Glory - Simone Dupré
• Jean Murat - Paul Derval
• Armand Bernard - Jules Fanfarel
• Marie-Antoinette Buzet - La secrétaire
• Jean Boyer - Moreau
• Albert Broquin - Un choriste
• André Michaud - Le garçon de restaurant

Other film versions

• Tales of the Typewriter (December 1916, Hungary, directed by Alexander Korda)
• The Private Secretary (January 1931, Germany, directed by Wilhelm Thiele)
• The Private Secretary (July 1931, Italy, directed by Goffredo Alessandrini)
• Sunshine Susie (December 1931, United Kingdom, directed by Victor Saville)
• The Private Secretary (December 1953, West Germany, directed by Paul Martin)

References

1. Web site: La DACTYLO SE MARIE (1934). https://web.archive.org/web/20090119044856/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30470. dead. 19 January 2009.