''Mary's Big Secret'' (German: ''Marys großes Geheimnis'') is a 1928 German
silent film
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directed by
Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone.
Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
.Holmstrom p.109
The film's
art direction
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It is the charge of a sole art director to super ...
was by
Robert A. Dietrich
Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.Scheunemann p.277 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Student of Prague (1913 film), The Student of P ...
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Cast
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André Mattoni
André Mattoni (born Andreas Leo Otto Edler von Mattoni; 24 February 1900 – 11 January 1985) was an Austrian actor. His paternal grandfather was Heinrich Kaspar von Mattoni, founder of the Mattoni mineral water company. His mother was Adele J ...
Max Maxudian
Max Algop Maxudian (12 June 1881 – 20 July 1976) was a French stage and film actor.
Born in the Ottoman Empire to an Armenian family, Max Maxudian emigrated to France with his parents in 1893 at the age of twelve. Maxudian became a famous theat ...
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Max Maximilian
Max Maximilian (born Franz Kuhn; 23 September 1885 – 25 June 1930)Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister StA Schöneweide, Nr. 196/1930 was a German singer, actor and director.Waldman p.141
Career
Maximilian was born in Cologne and began his career ...
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Lydia Potechina
Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer.
Selected filmography
*''Destiny'' (1921)
* ''The Conspiracy in Genoa ...
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Eva Speyer
Eva Speyer also known as Eva Speyer-Stoeckel and Eva Ebert (24 August 1882 – 13 August 1975) was a German actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1911 to 1932.
Selected filmography
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Elza Temary
Elza Temary lsa Temary(12 February 1905 – 16 February 1968) was a Hungarian film actress.
Personal life
Elza Temary was born Elza Klecker in Timișoara, Austria-Hungary.(March 4, 1933). Marriage record: Philip Matthiessen Chancellor (25) to El ...
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Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into a theatrical family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany, now Chełmża, Poland. His great-grandparents were actors a ...
References
Bibliography
* John Holmstrom. ''The moving picture boy: an international encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Michael Russell, 1996.