Truus met the other members of the cast - her six "sisters" (including English actress Betty Balfour) and Willy Fritsch as Count Horkay (19).
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Her claim to be related to Anton Chekhov was true, but she also loved to spin the most amazing yarns about her early life: she was close to Tsar Nicholas II, had met Rasputin and had fled the Revolution disguised as a mute peasant woman, hiding her jewellery in her mouth.
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Also in 1929, "Der Sonderling" ("The Eccentric") gave her the chance to work with one of Germany's comedy giants, Karl Valentin.
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