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
Network & Production Companies
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
John O'Hara
Writer
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
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
blackmail
ballerina
impersonation
chase
jewels
moral reformation
thieves
con artists
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. Actress/ballerina Countess Tanya Vronsky (Vera Zorina) works as decoy for two international con artists Andre Desormeaux (Erich von Stroheim) and Polo (Peter Lorre).
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