Dramatic School (1938)
What price fame for innocent beauties seeking careers in the theatre's spotlight!
80 min
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
- Release date
- December 9, 1938
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Luise Rainer as Louise Mauban
- Paulette Goddard as Nana
- Alan Marshal as André D'Abbencourt
- Lana Turner as Mado
- Genevieve Tobin as Gina Bertier
- John Hubbard as Fleury
- Henry Stephenson as Pasquel Sr.
- Gale Sondergaard as Thérèse Charlot
- Melville Cooper as Boulin
- Erik Rhodes as Georges Mounier
Crew
- Robert B. Sinclair · Director
- Ernest Vajda · Writer
- Mary C. McCall Jr. · Writer
- Hans Székely · Writer
- Zoltan Egyed · Writer
- Mervyn LeRoy · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- William H. Daniels · Cinematographer
- Fredrick Y. Smith · Editor