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I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Overview
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe’s high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam… Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she’ll join them in one last, big swindle…
Length 81 minutes
Actors
Peter Lorre | Sig Ruman | Erich von Stroheim | Inez Palange | Fritz Feld | Cora Witherspoon | Fortunio Bonanova | Rolfe Sedan | Jean Del Val | Leyland Hodgson | Richard Greene | Anthony Kemble-Cooper | Egon Brecher | Vera Zorina | Roger Imhof | Paul Porcasi | Jack Chefe | Phyllis Barry | Eugene Borden | Ann Codee | Franco Corsaro | Alphonse Martell | Eddie Conrad | Crauford Kent | Jacques Vanaire | Denis Greene | Yola d'Avril | Jeanne Lafayette | Albert Pollet | George Balanchine | Ellinor Vanderveer | Florence Wix | Billy Cook | Nino Bellini | Carl M. Leviness | Mario Dominici | Jean Acker | Jean Perry | Charles Laskey | Audrey Manners | Lew Christensen