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

Countess Tanya Vronsky

Vera Zorina

Paul Vernay

Richard Greene

Andre Desormeaux

Erich von Stroheim

Polo

Peter Lorre

Herr Protz

Sig Ruman

Henri Gautier

Fritz Feld

Aunt Cecile

Cora Witherspoon

Cousin Emil

Anthony Kemble-Cooper

Fisherman

Paul Porcasi

Fisherman's Wife

Inez Palange

Jacques Dubois

Egon Brecher

Henrich Von Kongen

Roger Imhof

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