

I Was an Adventuress
1940 Directed by Gregory RatoffPosing 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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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
Director
...........................................................Gregory Ratoff
Writer
...........................................................Darrell Ware
Assistant Director
...........................................................Fred Spencer
Sound
...........................................................W.D. Flick
Roger Heman Sr.
Music Director
...........................................................David Buttolph
Screenplay
...........................................................Karl Tunberg
Production Companies
...................................................20th Century Fox
Production Countries
........................................................United States of America
Spoken Languages
....................................................Français
English
Genres
....................................................Drama
Crime
Romance
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