Kora Terry (1940)

5.5/10 109 min Drama Music

Overview

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...

Cast

Marika Rökk

Kora / Mara Terry

Will Quadflieg

Michael Varany

Josef Sieber

Karel Tobias - gen. Tobs

Will Dohm

Agent Möller

Hans Leibelt

Bartos - Direktor des Odeon

Ursula Herking

Fräulein Haase

Herbert Hübner

Flockina von Platen

Olly Laurens

Franz Schafheitlin

Vopescu

Friedl Haerlin

Maria Koppenhöfer

Managerin der Truppe

Lotte Spira

Paul Bildt

Rudolf Carl

Artist mit dem Hundeakt

Karl John

Chef der Kraftmännertruppe

Hubert von Meyerinck

Heinrich Schroth

Andrews Engelmann

Erich Fiedler

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