I Was an Adventuress (1940)
1h 21m
Running Time
May 10, 1940Release Date
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
1h 21m
Running Time
May 10, 1940Release Date
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Plot.
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..
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Cast & Crew.

Vera Zorina
Countess Tanya Vronsky

Richard Greene
Paul Vernay

Erich von Stroheim
Andre Desormeaux

Peter Lorre
Polo

Sig Ruman
Herr Protz

Fritz Feld
Henri Gautier

Cora Witherspoon
Aunt Cecile

Anthony Kemble-Cooper
Cousin Emil

Paul Porcasi
Fisherman

Inez Palange
Fisherman's Wife

Egon Brecher
Jacques Dubois

Roger Imhof
Henrich Von Kongen

Rolfe Sedan
Waiter

Eddie Conrad
Waiter

Fortunio Bonanova
Orchestra Leader

Jean Acker
Minor Role (uncredited)

George Balanchine
Ballet Dancer (uncredited) / Choreographer

Phyllis Barry
Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Nino Bellini
Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Eugene Borden
Porter (uncredited)

Jack Chefe
Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Lew Christensen
Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Ann Codee
Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)

Billy Cook
Bellboy (uncredited)

Franco Corsaro
French Artist (uncredited)

Yola d'Avril
Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)

Jean Del Val
Detective (uncredited)

Mario Dominici
Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Denis Greene
Englishman at Party (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson
Englishman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Crauford Kent
Englishman at Party (uncredited)

Jeanne Lafayette
Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)

Charles Laskey
Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Carl M. Leviness
Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Audrey Manners
Englishwoman at Party (uncredited)

Alphonse Martell
Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Jean Perry
Detective (uncredited)

Albert Pollet
Waiter (uncredited)

Jacques Vanaire
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Ellinor Vanderveer
Englishwoman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Florence Wix
Frenchwoman at Exhibit (uncredited)

Roger Heman Sr.
Sound

W.D. Flick
Sound

David Buttolph
Music Director / Music

Nunnally Johnson
Associate Producer

Karl Tunberg
Screenplay

Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography

Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography

Don Ettlinger
Screenplay

Gregory Ratoff
Director

Richard Day
Art Direction

Thomas Little
Set Decoration

Francis D. Lyon
Editor

John O'Hara
Screenplay

Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction

James Curtis Havens
Second Unit Director

Royer
Costume Design

Fred Spencer
Assistant Director

Jacques Companéez
Original Film Writer

Herbert W. Spencer
Orchestrator

Hans Jacoby
Original Film Writer

Jack Lorenz
Electrician

Jane Hinton Smith
Adaptation

Darrell Ware
Writer
Media.





Details.
This Movie Is About.
chase
blackmail
impersonation
moral reformation
ballerina
jewels
con artists
thieves
imposture
Wiki.
I Was an Adventuress is a 1940 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, and Peter Lorre. An actress/ballerina works as decoy for two international con artists.
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