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Featuring:
Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill
Written by:
Joseph Anthony
Zoe Akins
Katharine Brush
Directed by:
Marion Gering
Release Date:
February 21, 1936
Original Title:
Lady of Secrets
Alternate Titles:
Adeus ao Passado
AdiĆ³s al pasado
Il peccato di Lilian Day
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 73
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
The secret of the Lady of Secrets (Ruth Chatterton) is that her so-called younger sister, Joan (Marian Marsh), isn't her sister at all but is actually her daughter. Her lover, Michael Whittaker (Lloyd Nolan), was killed in the war and his domineering father (Lionel Atwill) insisted that the child she was carrying, out of wedlock, be reared as her younger sister and not as a bastard child.. When the truth finally emerges, Mr. Whitaker has Celia committed---but she escapes in time to keep her daughter, Joan (Marian Marsh), from marrying a man, David (Otto Kruger), she does not love.
Director:
Marion Gering
Director of Photography:
Ted Tetzlaff
Editor:
Viola Lawrence
Producer:
B.P. Schulberg
Screenplay:
Joseph Anthony
Zoe Akins
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