The Typist

{{short description|1931 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Typist

| image = The Typist.jpg

| caption =

| director = Wilhelm Thiele

| producer = {{ubl|Herman Millakowsky|Georg Witt}}

| writer = {{ubl|Jean Boyer|István Békeffy (operetta)|Franz Schulz|István Szomaházy (novel)}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Marie Glory|Jean Murat|Armand Bernard}}

| music = Lajos Lajtai

| cinematography = {{ubl|Otto Heller|Reimar Kuntze|Adolf Schlasy}}

| editing =

| studio = {{ubl|Pathé-Natan|Greenbaum-Film}}

| distributor = Pathé-Natan

| released = {{Film date|1931|04|04|df=yes}}

| runtime = 77 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Typist (French: Dactylo) is a 1931 French comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Marie Glory, Jean Murat and Armand Bernard.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30470|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119044856/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30470|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 January 2009|title=La DACTYLO SE MARIE (1934)|publisher=}} 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.