I Was an Adventuress
1940 · 81 min
Drama · Crime · Romance
★ 6.5Posing 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...
Crew
- Director Gregory Ratoff
- Screenplay Don Ettlinger
- Screenplay Karl Tunberg
- Screenplay John O'Hara
- Writer Darrell Ware
- Director of Photography Leon Shamroy
- Director of Photography Edward Cronjager
Cast
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
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Anthony Kemble-Cooper
Cousin Emil
Paul Porcasi
Fisherman
Inez Palange
Fisherman's Wife
Egon Brecher
Jacques Dubois
Roger Imhof
Henrich Von Kongen
Crew
- Director — Gregory Ratoff
- Screenplay — Don Ettlinger
- Screenplay — Karl Tunberg
- Screenplay — John O'Hara
- Writer — Darrell Ware
- Director of Photography — Leon Shamroy
- Director of Photography — Edward Cronjager
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