Paris Underground (1945)
1h 36m
Running Time
October 18, 1945Release Date
Paris Underground (1945)
1h 36m
Running Time
October 18, 1945Release Date
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Plot.
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Cast & Crew.

Constance Bennett
Kitty de Mornay / Producer

Gracie Fields
Emmeline Quayle

George Rigaud
Andre de Mornay

Kurt Kreuger
Capt. Kurt von Weber

Eily Malyon
Madame Martin

Vladimir Sokoloff
Undertaker

Gregory Gaye
Tissier

Leslie Vincent
Lt. William Gray

Charles Andre
Father Dominique

Richard Ryen
Mons. Renard

Maurice Cass
Patriot

Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Margot

Andrew V. McLaglen
Sgt. McNair

Gregory Ratoff
Director

Drew Tetrick
Wardrobe Coordinator

Alexander Tansman
Original Music Composer
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Wiki.
Paris Underground, also known as Madame Pimpernel, is a 1945 film directed by Gregory Ratoff, and based on the memoir of the same title by Etta Shiber.
The film stars Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields as an American and an Englishwoman trapped in Paris when Nazi Germany invades in 1940, who rescue British airmen shot down in France and help them escape across the English Channel. This was also Bennett's only producing credit. The film's sets were designed by the art director Nicolai Remisoff.
Alexandre Tansman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score (one of 21 nominations that year).
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