Kora Terry (1940)
When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...
Director: Georg Jacoby
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Marika Rökk as Kora / Mara Terry |
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Will Quadflieg as Michael Varany |
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Josef Sieber as Karel Tobias - gen. Tobs |
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Will Dohm as Agent Möller |
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Hans Leibelt as Bartos - Direktor des Odeon |
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Ursula Herking as Fräulein Haase |
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Herbert Hübner as |
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Flockina von Platen as Olly Laurens |
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Franz Schafheitlin as Vopescu |
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Friedl Haerlin as |
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Maria Koppenhöfer as Managerin der Truppe |
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Lotte Spira as |
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Paul Bildt as |
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Rudolf Carl as Artist mit dem Hundeakt |
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Karl John as Chef der Kraftmännertruppe |
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Hubert von Meyerinck as |
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Heinrich Schroth as |
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Hermann Mayer-Falkow as Casinogast |
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Andrews Engelmann as |
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Erich Fiedler as |
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Theodor Loos as |
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Hans Stiebner as |
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Ingolf Kuntze as |
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Eleonore Tappert as |
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Annemarie Steinsieck as |
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Jockel Stahl as |
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Leo Peukert as |
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge as |
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Lucienne Dugard as Singer in the french version |
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Charles Francois as Casinogast |
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Fred Goebel as Itaienischer Hotelportier |
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Julius E. Herrmann as Gast bei Mara/Kora |
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Karl Iban as Artist im Odeon nach der Schlußvorstellung |
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Karl Jüstel as Gast bei der Bauchtanzszene, Polizist d. Mara verhaftet |
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Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Polizist bei Maras Verhör |
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Alfred Karen as Hotelgeschäftsführer |
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Paul Mederow as Mitglied der Untersuchungskommission |
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Klaus Pohl as Konzertbesucher |
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Gisela Scholtz as |
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Michael von Newlinsky as Zuschauer bei der Gerichtsverhandlung |
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Herbert Weißbach as Verehrer Koras |
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Willy Witte as Artist |
| Directing | Georg Jacoby | Director |
| Camera | Konstantin Irmen-Tschet | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Walter Wassermann | Writer |
| Writing | Lotte Neumann | Writer |
| Writing | Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz | Novel |
| Editing | Erich Kobler | Editor |
| Sound | Peter Kreuder | Music |