The Secret Lie

The story

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.”

Cast

P Pola NegriCarmen Casini H Hermann BraunCecil Lasko H Herbert HübnerBartell H Harald PaulsenSmith J Josefine DoraTheres S Suse GrafColette H Hans LeibeltSam Milbrey J Jupp HusselsRennbahnreporter W Walter GrossRundfunkreporter L Lotte Spira L Leo PeukertOpernhausdirektor L Liselotte SchaakKrankenschwester

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H Hansi ArnstaedtMrs. Latour E Ernst LegalBankdirektor, Finanzberater Carmens S S.O. SchoeningDoktor, Spieler am Pokertisch G Günther BallierFetscherin, Hans J Jens von HagenSpieler am Pokertisch K Karl HannemannPortier im Konzertsaal W William HuchKonzertsaaldiener I Ingolf KuntzeHerr Professor K Karl PlatenKonzertsaaldiener K Klaus PohlBildberichterstatter O Oscar SaboPolizist E Ernst Albert SchaachBildberichterstatter H Heinrich SchrothChefarzt E Erika StreithorstAngestellte an der Hotelrezeption C Charly BergerMann am Spieltisch C Curt CappiPianospieler L Liesl EckardtGarderobenfrau M Max Harry ErnstGast im Lokal H Hans FetscherinCarmen Casinis Gesangspartner L Lothar GeistLiftboy F Fred GoebelBarmann im Klub K Karl Junge-SwinburneHoteldirektor H Heinrich KalnbergKonzertsaaldiener K Karl MünchSpieler am Bakkarattisch W Walter SteinwegReporter T Tommy ThomasHotelpage A Albert VenohrReporter B Betty WaidGarderobenfrau H Hanns WaschatkoOber an Milbreys Tafel M Max WilmsenInspizient im Opernhaus B Bruno ZienerKonzertsaaldiener