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I Was an Adventuress
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I Was an Adventuress

May 10, 1940
1h 21m
★ 6.3

Overview

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...

Genres

Drama
Crime
Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Vera Zorina

Countess Tanya Vronsky

Vera Zorina

Richard Greene

Paul Vernay

Richard Greene

Erich von Stroheim

Andre Desormeaux

Erich von Stroheim

Peter Lorre

Polo

Peter Lorre

Sig Ruman

Herr Protz

Sig Ruman

Fritz Feld

Henri Gautier

Fritz Feld

Cora Witherspoon

Aunt Cecile

Cora Witherspoon

Anthony Kemble-Cooper

Cousin Emil

Anthony Kemble-Cooper

Paul Porcasi

Fisherman

Paul Porcasi

Inez Palange

Fisherman's Wife

Inez Palange

Egon Brecher

Jacques Dubois

Egon Brecher

Roger Imhof

Henrich Von Kongen

Roger Imhof

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