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The Secret Lie

6.0 80 mins Drama   1938
Terra-Filmkunst  
Director(s): Nunzio Malasomma

Release Date: 25 Fri, Mar 1938

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”

Casts of The Secret Lie

Pola Negri

as Carmen Casini

Hermann Braun

as Cecil Lasko

Herbert Hübner

as Bartell

Harald Paulsen

as Smith

Josefine Dora

as Theres

Suse Graf

as Colette

Hans Leibelt

as Sam Milbrey

Jupp Hussels

as Rennbahnreporter

Walter Gross

as Rundfunkreporter

Leo Peukert

as Opernhausdirektor

Liselotte Schaak

as Krankenschwester

Hansi Arnstaedt

as Mrs. Latour

Ernst Legal

as Bankdirektor, Finanzberater Carmens

S.O. Schoening

as Doktor, Spieler am Pokertisch

Günther Ballier

as Fetscherin, Hans

Jens von Hagen

as Spieler am Pokertisch

Karl Hannemann

as Portier im Konzertsaal

William Huch

as Konzertsaaldiener

Ingolf Kuntze

as Herr Professor

Karl Platen

as Konzertsaaldiener

Klaus Pohl

as Bildberichterstatter

Oscar Sabo

as Polizist

Ernst Albert Schaach

as Bildberichterstatter

Heinrich Schroth

as Chefarzt

Erika Streithorst

as Angestellte an der Hotelrezeption

Charly Berger

as Mann am Spieltisch

Curt Cappi

as Pianospieler

Liesl Eckardt

as Garderobenfrau

Max Harry Ernst

as Gast im Lokal

Hans Fetscherin

as Carmen Casinis Gesangspartner

Lothar Geist

as Liftboy

Fred Goebel

as Barmann im Klub

Karl Junge-Swinburne

as Hoteldirektor

Heinrich Kalnberg

as Konzertsaaldiener

Karl Münch

as Spieler am Bakkarattisch

Walter Steinweg

as Reporter

Tommy Thomas

as Hotelpage

Albert Venohr

as Reporter

Betty Waid

as Garderobenfrau

Hanns Waschatko

as Ober an Milbreys Tafel

Max Wilmsen

as Inspizient im Opernhaus

Bruno Ziener

as Konzertsaaldiener

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