The Private Secretary (1931 Italian film)

1931 film

The Private Secretary (Italian:La segretaria privata) is a 1931 Italian "white-telephones" musical film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Elsa Merlini, Nino Besozzi and Sergio Tofano.^[1] It was the Italian-language version of the German film Die Privatsekretärin.

Cast

• Elsa Merlini - Elsa Lorenzi
• Nino Besozzi - Il banchiere Roberto Berri
• Sergio Tofano - Otello, l'usciere
• Cesare Zoppetti - Rossi, il capo del personale
• Umberto Sacripante - Il direttore del 'Pergolato'
• Ermanno Roveri - Il gagà alla stazione
• Marisa Botti - La signorina Botti, segretaria
• Renato Malavasi as Un signore che riceve uno schiaffo al 'Pergolato'
• Alfredo Martinelli as Un cliente del 'Pergolato'
• Noemi Orsini as Padrona della Pensione Primavera

Other film versions

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

References

1. BFI.org

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• The Private Secretary at IMDb