Doña mentiras
Cast & Crew
Adelqui Millar
Carmen Larrabeiti
Félix De Pomés
Miguel Ligero
Carmen Ruiz Moragas
Julio Peña
Film Details
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Synopsis
Lawyer Roberto Deval, a widower for six years, lives alone in Paris while his two chldren are studying at foreign colleges. Bob, the older child, and his sister Adelina are facing the difficulties of growing up without the support of a complete, stable family situation. As Adelina's birthday approaches, the ever-busy Roberto takes a break from work to buy her a present. At a ladies' fashion store, he has the good fortune to be served by Luisa Rollan, a pleasant salesclerk, who helps him make his selection. A few days later, Roberto bumps into Luisa again and thus begins a friendship which turns into love. When Bob and Adelina return to their father's house on vacation and find out about the romance, they cruelly try to break it up, but Luisa ends up gaining their confidence and approval, and they all work together to prepare her wedding to Roberto.
Director
Adelqui Millar
Cast
Carmen Larrabeiti
Félix De Pomés
Miguel Ligero
Carmen Ruiz Moragas
Julio Peña
Helena D'algy
Modesto Rivas
Mercedes Servet
Carmelita Fernández García
Film Details
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Notes
Paramount's 1929 film The Lady Lies, directed by Hobart Henley and starring Walter Huston and Claudette Colbert, was remade in 1930 in five foreign versions. The foreign-language versions were shot at Paramount's Joinville studios, just outside Paris. According to censorship records at the NYSA, the Spanish, Italian (Perché no?), Swedish (Vi två), and German (Seine Freundin Annette) versions were passed for exhibition in New York state, but no evidence has been found to indicate that the French version was released in the U.S. The French-language version was, however, exhibited in Montreal, Canada, in early November 1930. That version was titled Une femme a menti and was directed by Charles de Rochefort, adapted by Léopold Marchand and Hermann Kosterlitz, and starred Louise Lagrange and Paul Capellani. Some sources credit Luis Fernández Ardavín as dialogue director of the Spanish version but his participation has not been confirmed.
Running times for the various versions have been calculated from footage contained in NYSA records. The Swedish version, unlike the Spanish, was set in New York City. A Swedish reviewer, who had seen both the French and Swedish versions, commented that the Swedish was better in sound quality, but that its pace was too slow in comparison with the French version.
