The Secret Lie

The Secret Lie (1938)

Drama

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.”

Director: Nunzio Malasomma

Casts

	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
	Lotte Spira as
	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

Crew