Trivia

He appeared in "Song of the Open Road" (1944), "Frenchman's Creek" (1944) and "Hotel Berlin" (1945) when a social scandal ended his film career.

In the mid-1940s actress Lupe Velez became pregnant with Harald Maresch's child, but he refused to marry her. This is the reason she gave for taking her own life with 80 Seconal pills. Her note read: "To Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me, too; but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's, before I bring him with shame, or killin' him. Lupe." On the back of the note, Vélez wrote: "How could you, Harald, fake such a great love for me and our baby when all the time you didn't want us? I see no other way out for me so goodbye and good luck to you, Love Lupe.

As a result, the public blamed him for Velez's suicide, and his career as an actor was ruined.

The actor Harald Maresch took acting lessons at the Max Reinhard Seminar and afterwards he gained a foothold at the theater, first in Zurich and later in Vienna.

After an affair with the actress Lupe Velez she got pregnant. Because Harald Maresch distanced himself from her Lupe Velez committed suicide thereupon. She mentioned Harald Maresch as the father of her child in her suicide note. Afterwards Harald Maresch did not get any offers for roles in movies.

Because of the scandal with Lupe Velez he acted again at the theater where he only impersonated smaller parts. So he decided to return to Germany in 1952 and in the next years he played support roles in numerous movies, from time to time in the USA again.

His stage and his film career was in the second part of the thirties temporary because he had to flee after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich. Via France, Trinidad and Cuba he came to the USA in 1941.

He was able to continue his film career from 1944 in the USA but this also became a brief chapter.